Re: [Condor-users] Question for Maya users

[Jaime Frey <jfrey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 14, 2005, at 12:41 AM, Olivier Thibaut wrote:

> Olivier Thibaut wrote:
>
> > I'm running Maya rendering jobs using Condor and one of my render  
> > nodes
> > recently came out with this problem:
> >
> > > Starting "/usr/aw/maya6.5/bin/maya"
> > > Maya could not create the necessary startup directories.
> > > Please check for sufficient disk space and necessary write  
> > > permissions.
> >
> > This machine used to be able to render previously and, well, I  
> > suppose
> > something changed somewhere but I can't find what. I checked  
> > already the
> > diskspace of course, and the condor user also has the correct
> > permissions on its maya directory... I don't know what else to  
> > check. I
> > tried chmod-ing Maya directory and condor user directory in 777  
> > but it
> > doesn't help.
> > Any ideas ? Many thanks :-)
> >
> > Olivier Thibaut.
> I should add that when I run the same command line I give to Condor on
> my own, it just works fine.

Condor may be running maya under its execute directory, which may be  
on a different volume than when you run it manually.  
'condor_config_val execute' will tell you where Condor's execute  
directory is.

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