Issue starting PBS

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Problem starting PBS server

PBSPro uses pgsql to store the server configuration, and comes with a pgsql embedded (see rpm -ql pbspro-server). You will need to create a new system-level user, typically called ‘pbsdata’, and ensure that /var/spool/pbs/datastore is owned by that user. The RPM does not automatically create that user, which is not obvious, in my opinion. I would do this on a new PBSPro install: groupadd pbsdata useradd -g pbsdata -r pbsdata mkdir -p /var/spool/pbs/datastore chown pbsdata:pbsdata /var/spool/pbs…

Problem starting PBS server

Just to clarify… the commercial version of PBS Pro comes packaged with PostgreSQL, where the open source version lists PostgreSQL as a prerequisite. When PostgreSQL is installed independently of PBS Pro it creates a user named postgres, and the open source release uses that user ID for the PBS Pro database. I’ve seen cases where the ownership of the PBS Pro database directory has been inadvertently changed. This can be fixed with the following command: chown -R postgres:postgres /var/spool/pbs/…