Re: [Condor-users] Condorview crontab question

[Erik Paulson <epaulson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 04:27:04PM -0700, rnayar@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> I think I'm a little confused to who is going to run the crontab in condorview.
> 
> so far this is my set up
> 
> I have two machines and they are both set up to use NIS and NFS.
> 
> Machine A has 2 accounts - root and condor
> Machine B has 1 account - root but condor can long onto that machine through NIS
> and his home directory will be automatically mounted.
> 
> The root account on these machines is different (i.e. Machines A root cannot log
> on as root with his same password on machine B and vis versa)
> 
> Machine A is my central manager and also a condorview client.
> Machine B runs a second collector and is the condorview server
> 
> Machine A is running a webserver to publish the html files generated by the
> condorview client 
> 
> ----questions----
> Now condorview comes with a cron description file I have 2 questions:
> 
> question 1:
> Who should I run the cron jobs as? My gut feeling is is condor but i'm not sure.
> 

It doesn't matter, so long as the output can be read by the webserver.
Since there's no reason to run it as root, it's probably better not to
run it as root.

-Erik