Hi all,

We have happily been using hqueue for months now, but suddenly it's trying to run the jobs as “hquser,” without us having done anything. Previous jobs were run as root and that worked fine. Now we are getting “cd $HFS permission denied” errors. (It's trying to initialize the Houdini env.)

I don't know why suddenly hqueue has decided to run jobs as hquser, but that's another story.

So we thought if it's going to run as hquser we should add an hquser acaccount to our network and set the password as per this page [www.sidefx.com]. Still no dice. If I open a shell, I am able to su as hquser and have no problem cd'ing to $HFS.

The page linked to above says, “The ‘hquser’ account can be optionally created when adding a client machine to the farm,” but gives no indication why you'd want to do this or even how to do it.

Can anyone offer any suggestions? We are on Ubuntu Linux.

Sean