topic Re: SAS Work Folders permissions in Administration and Deployment

SAS Work Folders permissions

iscgonzalez — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 17:19:07 GMT

Hello guys,

I have been recently charged to administer our sas deployment, and as a newbie I'm facing a couple issues I haven't been able to solve.

At this moment I facing an scenario where it seems that Work folders that are created for every user in the platform have 700 permissions, and I don't know why sas is not deleting some of them after the session finishes. I'm stacking with those folders that I can't remove.

So my question is, is there a way I could set the folders to be created with 770 permissions, so in case of being necessary I can delete the stacked sessions, instead of having the users or the root user to delete them?

I saw the configuration of the SASv9.cfg file and it has the -workperms 777 option, so I don't know where else too look.

Thanks for your help!

Re: SAS Work Folders permissions

Kurt_Bremser — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 17:44:52 GMT

SAS provides a utility that assists in "housekeeping". It's called cleanwork and found in SASHOME/SASFoundation/9.4/utilities/bin.

Run it (as superuser or administrator) with your directory from the -work option as parameter. Do so regularly (via scheduler) to get rid of leftover WORKs from SAS sessions that have not terminated gracefully.

Re: SAS Work Folders permissions

JuanS_OCS — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 10:29:33 GMT

Hello @iscgonzalez,

just as a practical addition to what was indicated by @Kurt_Bremser : https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Cleanwork-Deployment-on-UNIX-SAS/td-p/268401