[plug] Where is it - AT

[Dirk]

Thanks craig some handy commands and yes its definatly gotten lost

# at
-bash: at: command not found

# rpm -V at
.M...... c /etc/rc.d/init.d/atd
missing    /usr/bin/at

now I finally now what the install is called to :)

rpm -q at
at-3.1.8-6mdk

previusly I looked on the mandrake install and it only listed cronat thanks
for your help :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig Ringer [mailto:craig at postnewspapers.com.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 11:48 AM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Where is it - AT
>
>
> > My Mandrake 9.1 crashed and I seem to have lost the AT
> command as there does
> > not seem to be a cron package were I hoped it was under I
> want it back :(
>
> Hopefully I'm not telling you anything you already know, but please
> remember that commands are case sensitive - "AT" and "at" are two
> different commands. Only "at" generally exists. Try running
> 'which at'
> and see what it says.
>
> It must've crashed pretty hard to lose files like that. According to:
> 	rpm -qf `which at`
> the at command is in the 'at' package, at least on my Red Hat
> machine,
> and lives in /usr/bin/at. I'd be inclined to suggest that you
> verify the
> package if you suspect a problem by using "rpm -V at'. The
> output isn't
> overly intuitive, so perhaps post it to the list, but it is
> explained in
> 'man rpm'.
>
> I haven't seen file system corruption (lost files etc) on a machine
> running with a journalling filesystem like reiserfs or ext3
> unless there
> are hardware issues like bad cache or a dodgy hard disk. In
> this case,
> before suspecting filesystem problems I'd suggest making sure the
> package wasn't somehow accidentally uninstalled (do an 'rpm
> -q at' and
> see what it says, it'll tell you if it can't find the package or tell
> you the version if it's installed).
>
> Craig Ringer