PBS service does not start with error: pbs_mom: Permission denied (13) in chk_file_sec, Security violation

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Issue

On starting PBS service (third party application) get error below:

# service pbs start
Starting PBS
pbs_mom: Permission denied (13) in chk_file_sec, Security violation "/var/spool/PBS/mom_priv/jobs/" resolves to "/var/spool/PBS/mom_priv/jobs"
pbs_mom: Success (0) in mom_main, Warning: one of chk_file_sec failed: /var/spool/PBS/mom_priv/jobs/, /var/spool/PBS/spool/, /var/spool/PBS/pbs_environment
pbs_mom startup failed, exit 3 aborting.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9
  • Torque (third party open source application that provides control over batch jobs and distributed computing resources)

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