Re: trouble with `at'

[Jerome BENOIT <jgmbenoit@wanadoo.fr>]

Thanks for your reply.

Kevin Buhr wrote:
> Jerome BENOIT <jgmbenoit@wanadoo.fr> writes:
>
> > I have some touble with the `at' utility:
> > when I launch
> >
> > at -f myjob now
> >
> > I get the message:
> >
> > Cannot give away file: Permission denied
>
>
> That's curious.  What version of the "at" package are you using?  Is
> it 3.1.8-11?  

This is version 3.1.8-11  (Debian stable (Woody))


This message means that either the "fchown" or the
> "fchmod" call to change the ownership and execute permissions of the
> job file that's stored in "/var/spool/cron/atjobs" returned an EACCES
> error, but neither of those calls should return an EACCES error under
> normal circumstances.
>
> Double-check that your "at" binary and the "atjobs" directories have
> the correct permissions:
>
> # ls -ald /usr/bin/at /var/spool/cron/atjobs
> -rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root        34488 Jan 18  2002 /usr/bin/at
> drwx------    2 daemon   daemon       1024 May 14 14:29 /var/spool/cron/atjobs

I get the same mode flag.


> Also, is your "/var" on an unusual filesystem, something besides
> "ext2" or "ext3"?  Maybe NFS?

I get trouble on diskless computers (`/var' is mounted through NFS).

> If it's ext2 or ext3, try "lsattr -a /var/spool/cron/atjobs".  There
> shouldn't be any special attribute set, and the only file in the
> directory---if no jobs are pending---should be ".SEQ".
>
> # lsattr -a /var/spool/cron/atjobs
> -------------- /var/spool/cron/atjobs/.
> -------------- /var/spool/cron/atjobs/..
> -------------- /var/spool/cron/atjobs/.SEQ

Thanks,
Jerome