[HTCondor-users] java universe writing files as user nobody

[Karin Lagesen <karin.lagesen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

I am running a dag script with four jobs in it, two in vanilla universe 
and two in java universe. Due to a curious setup, even though we do have 
a shared file system, all UID_DOMAINs are different, which afaik causes 
the jobs to run as nobody. This is not a problem for the two vanilla 
universe programs. However, for the java universe jobs, the output files 
are written as nobody.nobody. This is an issue since java job no 2 then 
claims that this file is non-existent and cannot run.

All four scripts have should_transfler_files=YES and 
when_to_transfer_output=ON_EXIT. For reasons unknown to me (these 
scripts are hand me downs from the previous sysadmin) the two vanilla 
universe jobs specify the file that should be output (input is specified 
in the arguments list). The java universe scripts do not - they have 
input and output specified in the arguments list. I tried specifying 
output for the java job, using an absolute path, but while the file did 
end up having the right permissions, it ended up in the submitting 
directory.

Needless to say this leaves me a bit confused. Anybody got any hints for 
me? Right now I am at a loss of where to start chasing this down.

Best, Karin
--
Karin Lagesen, Ph.D.
Department of Medical Genetics
and Norwegian High-Throughput Sequencing Centre (NSC)
Oslo University Hospital