Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 23:40:07 -0800 (PST) From: Bryce Newall <data@dreamhaven.net> To: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Broken "at" ? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.05.9902232335470.453-100000@ds9.dreamhaven.org>
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Greetings! I have a small problem. Somehow, in the process of swapping out some hard drives, I seem to have broken the "at" command. Some of my users have griped about it, because they (like me, actually) use it to send themselves reminder notes, and it's a heck of a lot easier than using cron to set up a one-time job and then remembering to delete the cron job again. Whenever something tries to run with atrun, I get this in my logs: Feb 24 00:30:00 dreamhaven atrun[19405]: cannot create output file: Permission denied I have no idea where "at" is trying to create its output file. My best guess is /var/at, and I suspect there's a permissions problem somewhere, but I don't know what the permissions should be. Here's what I have: [61]root@dreamhaven:/var # ls -d at drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 Feb 8 11:24 at/ [62]root@dreamhaven:/var # cd at [63]root@dreamhaven:/var/at # ls total 2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Dec 25 01:15 at.deny drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Feb 24 00:26 jobs/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Dec 25 01:15 spool/ I've tried changing the permissions on the "jobs" and "spool" directories to 777, but to no avail. If anyone has a suggestion, I'd sure love to hear it! It's probably just something stupid that I've overlooked. P.S. If you reply to the list, please also include my personal address in your reply, as I will see it much faster. Thanks in advance! ********************************************************************** * Bryce Newall * Email: data@dreamhaven.net * * WWW: http://www.dreamhaven.net/~data * * "Insanity takes its toll. Please have exact change." * ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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