Re: [HTCondor-users] output files and umask

[Todd Tannenbaum <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/3/2017 1:39 PM, Michael Di Domenico wrote:
> So i can confirm it is in fact dagman that's the difference.  if i
> take a simple job and do a condor_submit, the output/error files get
> created with the correct permissions 0640, if i then submit the exact
> same job wrapped in a dag, the files get created with 0644
>
> would it be fair to assume that dagman is launching these jobs as the
> user, but it's not pulling the umask from the user, but that of the
> condor daemon?

Yes, I think that is exactly what is happening.

So again, I'd suggest telling condor_submit to not bother itself 
creating the stdout/err files in the first place, and just let that 
happen when the job runs...

regards,
Todd

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