[plug] nasty 'at' bug in ubuntu?

[Richard Meyer]

Running OpenSUSE and get the following

> richard1 at Selous:~> at -V
> at version 3.1.8
> Bug reports to: ig25 at rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig)
> Garbled time
> richard1 at Selous:~> at 10pm thu
> warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh
> at> blah
> at> <EOT>
> job 1 at 2009-01-01 22:00
> Can't open /var/run/atd.pid to signal atd. No atd running?
> richard1 at Selous:~> atq
> 1       2009-01-01 22:00 a richard1

Looks like a Debian feature.

Cheers
RM


On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 11:19 +0900, William Kenworthy wrote:
> gentoo stable:
> 
> *  sys-process/at
>       Latest version available: 3.1.8-r11
>       Latest version installed: 3.1.8-r11
>       Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest]
>       Homepage:
> ftp://jurix.jura.uni-sb.de/pub/jurix/source/chroot/appl/at/
>       Description: Queues jobs for later execution
>       License:     GPL-2
> 
> rattus ~ # at -V
> at version 3.1.8
> Bug reports to: ig25 at rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig)
> Garbled time
> rattus ~ #
> 
> ~x86 (approximates testing):
> 
> rattus ~ # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~x86' emerge sys-process/at -vp
> 
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild     U ] sys-process/at-3.1.10.1 [3.1.8-r11] 98 kB
> 
> Total: 1 package (1 upgrade), Size of downloads: 98 kB
> rattus ~ #
> 
> I dont see any mention of this bug in the gentoo changelog, or when
> looking at gentoo's patches for at, so its looking like a debian
> specific "feature"
> 
> BillK
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 11:06 +0900, Mike Holland wrote:
> > William Kenworthy wrote:
> > >
> > > Looks ok on gentoo.
> > 
> > Thanks. What version of at do you have?
> > 
> > On ubuntu/debian, dpkg says 3.1.10, but "at -V" still says 3.1.9.
> > 
> > > Is the timezone set? - looks like there is an hour discrepancy (DST) as
> > > well.
> > 
> > Yes, but I think that will go away when the main bug is fixed.
> > 
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