Hi Kostas,
cron jobs on worker nodes are matter of policy. Do you have different
policies for local users and for grid users?
cheers
alessandra
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Kostas Georgiou wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 05:15:24PM +0000, Alessandra Forti wrote:
>
>> It is probably better to disable both at and cron.
>
> Sure, assuming of course it's ok to disable it for local users
> that are using the farm (someone here wanted to use at in the
> lcg farm recently).
>
> Of course that doesn't solve anything if the homes aren't cleared
> after a reuse of a pool account.
> # ls -al ~lhcb001/
> -rw-r--r-- 1 lhcb001 lhcb 24 Feb 26 2004 .bash_logout
> -rw-r--r-- 1 lhcb001 lhcb 191 Feb 26 2004 .bash_profile
> -rw-r--r-- 1 lhcb001 lhcb 124 Feb 26 2004 .bashrc
> -rw------- 1 lhcb001 lhcb 0 May 15 2004 .cvspass
> -rw-r--r-- 1 lhcb001 lhcb 854 Feb 26 2004 .emacs
> -rw-r--r-- 1 lhcb001 lhcb 353 Jun 3 2004 .netrc
> drwx------ 2 lhcb001 lhcb 4096 May 20 2004 .ssh
>
> You don't want to know what's on ~lhcb001/.netrc either (but thats
> another story).
>
> I assume that pbs (or whatever else people use) will kill all
> jobs from the user once the parent exits even if they are in a
> different process group etc.. If not you do need to cleanup after
> jobs as well.
>
> Cheers,
> Kostas
>
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