From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040124 Galeon/1.3.13 Description of problem: Tasks scheduled with at are not done. Instead, a file named "2" appears in the working directory. The mail with the output of the scheduled task is send, but the content of the mail is compose of error messages described below Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): at-3.1.8-46.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run a progran inside at: prompt$ at now at> ls at> Crtl-D Actual Results: A file named 2 appears in the working directory. to see the contente of the file I make prompt$ cat 2 Execution directory inaccessible prompt$ A mail is sent to me, the content of the mail is: USER=hare: Command not found. export: Permission denied. LOGNAME=hare: Command not found. export:Permission denied. HOME=/home/hare: Command not found. export: Permission denied. PATH=/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:.: Command not found. export: Permission denied. VENDOR=intel: Command not found. export: Permission denied. OSTYPE=linux: Command not found. export: Permission denied. MACHTYPE=i386: Command not found. export: Permission denied. And follows with more enviroment variables Expected Results: A mail is send to me with the output of the ls program in the present working directory Additional info: In the version of at shiped with redhat 9, a meesage appeared before the at prompt: "warning: commands will be executed using (in order) a) $SHELL b) login shell c) /bin/sh" This message has disappeared in the present version
Are you using tcsh or csh?
I'm using tcsh. I have checked that "at" works if your login shell is bash (that is to say, the shell in /etc/passwd)
Please update to the at in FC devel (aka rawhide). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 109587 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.