Description of problem: When the at/batch job finishes, the attempt to deliver the email fails with the message "Jun 19 09:24:58 allhats atd[19566]: Open of jobfile failed: Success" and then atd dies. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): at-3.1.10-11.fc7 How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Submit a batch job that produces email, like "echo 'yes'" 2. Restart service atd if it's dead Actual results: atd is dead. The message "atd[19504]: Open of jobfile failed: Success" is in /var/log/messages The actual output of the at job is in /var/spool/at/spool. The batch job file is still in /var/spool/at Expected results: An email is sent to me. atd continues to run. The message and job files are cleaned up from their respective directories. Additional info:
Not sure if it's relevant, but this system has been progressively upgraded from RedHat 6 or so, and had only just been upgraded from Fedora Core 5 to Fedora 7.
This same bug is described here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243064 and here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=224597
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 243064 ***