On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 09:42:02AM -0000, Burke, S (Stephen) wrote:
> Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kostas Georgiou said:
> > I could spend hours explaining why glexec is a bad idea (and I will),
> > but before that I would like someone to tell me why we need the
> > pilot jobs in the first place.
>
> Various reasons are given, but I think the biggest one is that many
> sites (and individual WNs) are misconfigured or broken and the failure
> rate for jobs submitted in the conventional way is too high. Pilot jobs
> can check their environment before pulling the real job so the effective
> failure rate is much lower.
So glexec is not needed then. You can do that per user without any problems
and you don't have to worry about badly written suid hacks.
Kostas
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