Globus error 123 and Condor_g

Thanks to Stu Martin and Todd Tannenbaum for independently providing the solution below.

Problem: Condor-G submission to a Globus pre-webservice GRAM failed and throws an error

 "Globus error 123 (could not write the job state file)"

This is described in more detail at http://www-unix.globus.org/mail_archive/discuss/2002/11/msg00131.html. You can reproduce it with this globusrun command:

globusrun -r my.secret.machine/jobmanager '&(executable=/bin/date)(save_state=yes)'

Solution: Edit $GLOBUS_LOCATION/etc/globus-job-manager.conf and change the value of the -state-file-dir to point to a local, non-NFS file system. For example:

-state-file-dir /usr/local/gram_job_state

Also, set permissions on this directory:

chmod ogu+rwxt /usr/local/gram_job_state