On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Mengjuei Hsieh wrote: > on 10/30/02 15:22, Mike Mettke at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > I am running RH7.3 with 1.4. All tests pass when running on the head node. I > > can also submit PBS jobs as ordinary user while being on the head node. > > However, when I am on any of the client nodes as oscartst, the testcluster > > script goes past the ssh tests successfully, but fails all pbs jobs with > > qsub: Bad UID for job execution > > The same happens when I am an ordinary user on any of the client nodes. > > What is the condition for PBS to allow job submission when not being on the > > pbs server ? > > Dear Mike > > Did you update the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files on the nodes after you > add a new user? It can be done by > "cpush /etc/passwd*" > and > "cpush /etc/shadow*" > . >
Even better, and more clean, is to use opium... /opt/opium/bin/sync_users -force But, I don't think it's a problem related to users definitions. I think that the problem lies in the pbs server configuration. If you want to submit processes from the nodes you have to authorize them to contact the pbs server. Now, the main question is, why the hell would you want to submit jobs *from* the nodes ? The whole point in having pbs is to be able to use the nodes *without* having to ssh into the nodes. If you're going to let the users login into the nodes you are going to face *a lot* of problems. Trust me. I managed a cluster without a batch/queueing system before. I had to face daily discussions with the users because everyone ssh'd to the free nodes and run big programs, in many cases overlapping other running ones when the cluster was at full load, and programs lasting for several days. It was a complete mess. Then one day I decided to rm -rf everything (I've been tempted to rm -rf /home, too, as every good bofh would've done ;)) and reinstall from scratch with a pbs/maui combination. From that day on everything worked quite flawlessly, without any more complain from the users. Oscar is a powerfull package, with a great and really configurable queueing system, it wouldn't be smart not to take advantage of it. Best regards, Franz --------------------------------------------------------- Franz Marini Sys Admin and Software Analyst, Dept. of Physics, University of Milan, Italy. email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0004en _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
