diff --git a/RTCP/Run/src/BGPPartition.sh b/RTCP/Run/src/BGPPartition.sh
index db966abc21e867536fb42aa6caac8ea181a14617..38b9bd926c24205b94b28558b70cca0950d656ea 100755
--- a/RTCP/Run/src/BGPPartition.sh
+++ b/RTCP/Run/src/BGPPartition.sh
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ function stop() {
 }
 
 function getpid() {
-  STATUS=`bgpartstatus $PARTITION </dev/null`
+  STATUS=`cd /;bgpartstatus $PARTITION </dev/null`
 
   case $STATUS in
     busy) PID="UP [$PARTITION]"
diff --git a/RTCP/Run/src/CNProcessing.sh b/RTCP/Run/src/CNProcessing.sh
index 97db6452e0101de0dfa36c5b59baa887d498af98..b8f07788ac10af6c661b824e0c515223358cb797 100755
--- a/RTCP/Run/src/CNProcessing.sh
+++ b/RTCP/Run/src/CNProcessing.sh
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ function stop() {
     mpikill "$PID" ||
 
     # ask DNA to kill the job
-    (bgjobs -u $USER -s | awk "/$PARTITION/ { print \$1; }" | xargs -L 1 bgkilljob) ||
+    (cd /;bgjobs -u $USER -s | awk "/$PARTITION/ { print \$1; }" | xargs -L 1 bgkilljob) ||
 
     # kill -9 is the last resort
     kill -9 "$PID"
@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ function stop() {
 
   while true
   do
-    JOBSTATUS=`bgjobs -u $USER -s | awk "/$PARTITION/ { print \\$6; }"`
-    JOBID=`bgjobs -u $USER -s | awk "/$PARTITION/ { print \\$1; }"`
+    JOBSTATUS=`cd /;bgjobs -u $USER -s | awk "/$PARTITION/ { print \\$6; }"`
+    JOBID=`cd /;bgjobs -u $USER -s | awk "/$PARTITION/ { print \\$1; }"`
 
     if [ -z "$JOBID" ]
     then
diff --git a/RTCP/Run/src/locations.sh.in b/RTCP/Run/src/locations.sh.in
index 0edbe2c3aa0f0cee724582be86053389f672fad6..c3b571a966463cf12618b564555a9265c44fe961 100644
--- a/RTCP/Run/src/locations.sh.in
+++ b/RTCP/Run/src/locations.sh.in
@@ -88,9 +88,9 @@ function set_psetinfo() {
   # bghierarchy needs a valid stdin for some reason and will read from it, so provide a fake one
   if [ "$PARTITION" == "R00R01" ]
   then
-    SUBPARTITIONS="`(bghierarchy -s R00 R01;bghierarchy -s \`bghierarchy -s R00 R01\`) </dev/null`"
+    SUBPARTITIONS="`(cd /;bghierarchy -s R00 R01;bghierarchy -s \`bghierarchy -s R00 R01\`) </dev/null`"
   else
-    SUBPARTITIONS="`(bghierarchy -s $PARTITION;bghierarchy -s \`bghierarchy -s $PARTITION\`) </dev/null`"
+    SUBPARTITIONS="`(cd /;bghierarchy -s $PARTITION;bghierarchy -s \`bghierarchy -s $PARTITION\`) </dev/null`"
   fi  
 
   # a comma-separated list of all psets in $PARTITION