Re: [Condor-users] condor_cron

[Matthew Farrellee <matt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Condor's cron functionality doesn't currently let you run jobs are root.

You could get around this with some *well protected* and well placed 
setuid root executables.

Best,


matt

Henning Fehrmann wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I tried to setup a condor_cron job
> which starts periodically every 5 seconds.
>
> I get the every 5s:
>
> 10/29 14:59:11 ERROR: Attempt to initialize user_priv with root privileges rejected
> 10/29 14:59:11 set_user_egid() called when UserIds not inited!
> 10/29 14:59:11 set_user_euid() called when UserIds not inited!
> 10/29 14:59:11 Create_Process: child failed because PRIV_USER_FINAL process was still root before exec()
> 10/29 14:59:11 Cron: Error running job 'job1'
>
> in the StartLog.
>
> Do I have to give away the root privileges and how could this be done?
>
> Cheers,
> Henning Fehrmann
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