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From: riley@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: DECsystem 3100 at atrun batch problem
Keywords: DECsystem 3100 at atrun batch Ultrix 3.1
Message-ID: <10480@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 28 Jun 90 12:26:53 GMT
References: <439@beguine.UUCP> <32670@ut-emx.UUCP> <1818@tkou02.enet.dec.com>
Reply-To: riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley)
Organization: Wilson Lab (LNS), Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <1818@tkou02.enet.dec.com> diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond@tkovoa) writes:
>The problem is that jobs in the batch/at queue do not get executed.
>Even when we use "at" instead of "batch", they don't get executed.
>The "atrun" command is more like an "atnoop".

Sounds like you're missing the "atrun" entry in crontab.  Look at
/etc/crontab...there should be an entry something like 

0,15,30,45 * * * * /usr/lib/atrun

If that's not there, then both at and batch will do nothing.

at works fine for me on our DECstation 3100's.  On the other hand, I just
tried batch and it doesn't seem to be doing anything (I did remember to
wait for atrun to run).

-Dan Riley (riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu, cornell!batcomputer!riley)
-Wilson Lab, Cornell  University