Hello, Our prolog script usually creates temporary folder under /scratch/${SLURM_JOB_USER}/${SLURM_JOB_ID} with the following permissions: ls -lsrt /scratch drwx------ 2 johndoe root 0 Aug 12 23:35 johndoe The epilog script usually takes care of deleting it: echo -e "\n**** JOB EPILOG ****\n" if [ ! -z "${SLURM_JOB_USER}" ] && [ ! -z "${SLURM_JOB_ID}" ]; then rm -rf /scratch/${SLURM_JOB_USER}/${SLURM_JOB_ID} fi Sometimes, the node get in draining state because of an epilog error for : [2026-08-12T16:36:30.215] error: epilog failed: rc:1 output: **** JOB EPILOG **** rm: cannot remove '/scratch/johndoe/464668': Permission denied This seems to happen on random jobs and eventually the files get deleted but the node remains in draining state. Does anyone know what is happening? Best, *Fritz Ratnasamy*Data Scientist Information Technology