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From: jwe@ut-emx.UUCP (John W. Eaton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: DECsystem 3100 at atrun batch problem
Keywords: DECsystem 3100 at atrun batch Ultrix 3.1 (Rev. 14)
Message-ID: <32670@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 90 21:08:14 GMT
References: <439@beguine.UUCP>
Reply-To: jwe@emx.utexas.edu (John W. Eaton)
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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In article <439@beguine.UUCP> tmorris@athena.sph.unc.edu
(Thomas P. Morris) writes: 
: We have a DECsystem 3100 running Ultrix 3.1 (Rev. 14), and
: I've run into a problem with at, atrun, and batch.
:
: The atrun command is set up within /etc/crontab to be run every 5
: minutes. Perusing the accounting with the 'lastcomm' command shows
: that atrun is indeed being run every 5 minutes.

: Jobs submitted via the batch command do not appear to be getting
: released.  Load average on this machine [is small].

Take a look at the Ultrix version of the man page for at(1) and look
for the comments about the files /usr/lib/cron/at.{deny,allow}.

Apparently DEC wants you to be able control the use of this utility on
a user by user basis, with the default set so that only root has
access.

--
John Eaton
jwe@emx.utexas.edu
Department of Chemical Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas  78712