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Bug 538776

Summary: Configuration file settings are not effective.
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Martin Cermak <mcermak>
Component: atAssignee: Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano>
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Description Martin Cermak 2009-11-19 11:44:12 UTC 
Description of problem:


At reads its newly added configuration file (/etc/sysconfig/atd) but configuration settings from this file are not effective.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

at-3.1.8-83.el5.x86_64

How reproducible:


At (at-3.1.8-83.el5.x86_64) recognizes the newly added configuration file (/etc/sysconfig/atd) in a way that it won't ever start if some syntax error is present there -that is right. But it seems, that atd does not interpret configuration directives from this config file properelly:

For example the setting OPTS="-l 3" should mean that jobs are not executed if system load exceeds 3. But this does not work.

Other configuration directives are not considered by atd as well.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Edit /etc/sysconfig/atd and set OPTS="-l 3" there.
2. Invoke system load over 3. (for example by dd if=/dev/zero bs=100M | gzip | gzip -d | gzip | gzip -d | gzip | gzip -d > /dev/null)
3. Schedule a job.
  
Actual results:

Job is executed.

Expected results:

Job should not be executed.

Additional info:
Comment 4 Marcela Mašláňová 2009-11-25 09:27:41 UTC 
*** Bug 540670 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Marcela Mašláňová 2009-11-25 11:00:54 UTC 
atd options like -b and -l are working only for batch commands. (See man atd). If you use the reproducer and use batch instead of at command, it will be working.