Hi folks! Have a Pants permissions issue. I have a <thing that runs jobs> - Hashicorp Nomad - that invokes

./pants

as root to execute a test. When I then try and do a

./pants

as <my own user> i, understandably, get something along the lines of

pants.pantsd.process_manager.ProcessManager.MetadataError: failed to purge metadata directory /ROOT_TO_MY_PANTS?PROJECT/.pids/26629ce97d56/pantsd: PermissionError(13, 'Permission denied')

Would there be a way for me to execute the

purge_metadata_by_name

stuff as root so that it's not screwed up for my normal user?

it’s always safe to remove the

/ROOT_TO_MY_PANTS?PROJECT/.pids

directory

Okay, thx 🙂