Re: [cciug] scheduler files, ownership

From: Dale LaBossiere (labo@Rational.COM)
Date: Thu Sep 28 2000 - 17:31:58 EDT


Wells Roger wrote:
>
> I'm fairly new to ClearCase 4.0; running on UNIX. We have changed the
> ownership of the tasks files ccase_local_day.sh and case_local_wk.sh to be
> owned by vobadm rather than by root. This change appears to cause the
> scheduler to run the tasks as vobadm, rather than root; that is, anything
> that requires root permission now fails.
>
> Is my analysis correct?

The scheduler doesn't do anything to change the identity of processes
it spawns.

There are a variety of ways you can check the running job's identity.
E.g., add an invocation of "id" to the task script, manually start the
job (e.g., ct sched run ...), wait for it to finish and see what's
it's completion info says.

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