Are you sure user nobody has the same UID across all the execute hosts? This is similar, IIRC to the error I got when I had a uid conflict. CB > -----Original Message----- > From: > bioclusters-bounces+christopher.botka=joslin.harvard.edu at bioin formatics.org [mailto:bioclusters-> bounces+christopher.botka=joslin.harvard.edu at bioinformatics.or > g] On Behalf Of Jinal Jhaveri > Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 9:27 PM > To: bioclusters at bioinformatics.org > Subject: [Bioclusters] running sge jobs as user nobody > > Sorry for cross-posting but I saw a related talk about this > issue on this list before so am I am posting it here. Has > anybody successfully ran SGE jobs as user nobody? I am > getting "can't chdir to /nonexistent: No such file or > directory"error. It seems like qsub command is looking for > the user's homedir, and nobody's home dir is /nonexistent and > thus it generates this error. > I am using -cwd and -o /tmp/x.out and -e /tmp/x.out options > Apart from "running it as a regular user" any other suggestions? > > Thank you > --Jinal > > _______________________________________________ > Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters at bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters >