Date: Mon, 3 Jan 100 13:24:46 -0800 (PST) From: Alan Evans <Alan.Evans@netouch.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: "at 1:30am monday" gives "at: garbled time" after y2k rollover Message-ID: <200001032124.NAA12544@r2d2.netouch.net>
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I have several boxes with various versions of FreeBSD (2.1, 2.1.6, 2.2.[2678], 3.2) and they all appear to have the same problem with the "at" command. We have our weekly.local script on a 2.2.6 box schedule a job to run on Monday morning at 1:30am. The scheduling happens at the predictable time on Saturday mornings when /etc/weekly runs. The scheduling command looks like this: at 1:30am Monday <<EOF /www/bin/process_logfiles.sh EOF Up until this past weekend, this had been working fine (4+ years). Starting Saturday morning (1/1/2000), this particular feature of at (using day of week) gives back "at: garbled time". The workaround has been to change the example above to: at 1:30am +2 days <<EOF /www/bin/process_logfiles.sh EOF I tested out OpenBSD 2.6 as well and the bug appears there as well. FYI, --alan -- Alan Evans Alan.Evans@netouch.com NETouch Communications, Inc. URL=> http://www.netouch.com/ 1 Technology Drive, Suite B-105 (949) 789-9170 FAX (949) 789-9169 Irvine, California 92618 PGP: http://www.netouch.com/aevans/pgp.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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