[Met_help] [rt.rap.ucar.edu #76427] History for Running met viewer in batch mode from shared sudo account

[John Halley Gotway via RT]

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  Initial Request
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Hi MET Help,

I've been trying to run mv_batch.sh but have run into a bit of a quandary
since, on our system at NCEP (metviewerdev), MET Viewer access at the
command line level is done through shared sudo access among a handful of
users.  Because of this, when I try running in batch mode MET Viewer will
output plots/data/R scripts in directories shared with MET Viewer's web
GUI.  If I set my XML file to point to my personal directories MET Viewer
will be unable to write to them (since this is being run via sudo and the
sudo account does not have permission).   Unfortunately I cannot invoke
mv_batch.sh from my personal account either.

Do you have any suggestions for this?  Would you suggest we create a
user-specifc set of subdirectories for batch tasks?

Thanks!
Jacob


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Subject: Running met viewer in batch mode from shared sudo account
From: John Halley Gotway
Time: Fri May 20 11:11:29 2016

Hi Jacob,

You raise a very good point.  I suppose this is one downside of using
a
shared group account.  Ultimately, it's an issue of how to manage
permissions for the shared account.

I've cc'ed Jesse McFarland from NCO who's been helping us with the
installation/use of METViewer.  Jesse, do you have any suggestions for
how
Jacob should run batch plots?  The mv_batch.sh script writes a few
output
files... file containing the data it pull from database, an Rscript,
and
the resulting image.  Given the current setup, is there any way for
Jacob
to run as himself rather than the shared account?  And if not, is
there a
particular place you'd recommend for his output?

Thanks,
John Halley Gotway

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 11:48 AM, Jacob Carley - NOAA Affiliate via RT
<
met_help at ucar.edu> wrote:

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> Thu May 19 11:48:37 2016: Request 76427 was acted upon.
> Transaction: Ticket created by jacob.carley at noaa.gov
>        Queue: met_help
>      Subject: Running met viewer in batch mode from shared sudo
account
>        Owner: Nobody
>   Requestors: jacob.carley at noaa.gov
>       Status: new
>  Ticket <URL:
https://rt.rap.ucar.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=76427 >
>
>
> Hi MET Help,
>
> I've been trying to run mv_batch.sh but have run into a bit of a
quandary
> since, on our system at NCEP (metviewerdev), MET Viewer access at
the
> command line level is done through shared sudo access among a
handful of
> users.  Because of this, when I try running in batch mode MET Viewer
will
> output plots/data/R scripts in directories shared with MET Viewer's
web
> GUI.  If I set my XML file to point to my personal directories MET
Viewer
> will be unable to write to them (since this is being run via sudo
and the
> sudo account does not have permission).   Unfortunately I cannot
invoke
> mv_batch.sh from my personal account either.
>
> Do you have any suggestions for this?  Would you suggest we create a
> user-specifc set of subdirectories for batch tasks?
>
> Thanks!
> Jacob
>
>

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