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From: mcvax!cad.luth.se!sow@uunet.uu.net (Sven-Ove Westberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: at and atrun
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Date: 20 Dec 88 11:28:11 GMT
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> I have a problem running at and atrun on our sun3 under Sun UNIX 4.2
> Release 3.5 

> the script is never executed, and when I run atrun by hand, I get an error:
> like this one:
> 88.334.0000.09: bad spool header
> 88.335.1105.48: bad spool header

It is a bug in the c-compiler, c-library or atrun. The problem is that
Suns scanf requires thet it is atleast one character left to this
expession '%*[^\n]'.  I include a diff from bsd4.3 atrun to fix this
problem.

------- atrun.c -------
*** /tmp/da8191	Tue Dec 13 09:02:45 1988
--- atrun.c	Sun Oct 16 00:27:10 1988
***************
*** 177,186 ****
  	 * Grab the 4-line header out of the spoolfile.
  	 */
  	if (
! 	    (fscanf(infile,"# owner: %127s%*[^\n]\n",owner) != 1) ||
! 	    (fscanf(infile,"# jobname: %127s%*[^\n]\n",jobname) != 1) ||
! 	    (fscanf(infile,"# shell: %3s%*[^\n]\n",shell) != 1) ||
! 	    (fscanf(infile,"# notify by mail: %3s%*[^\n]\n",mailvar) != 1)
  	    ) {
  		fprintf(stderr, "%s: bad spool header\n", spoolfile);
  		exit(1);
--- 177,186 ----
  	 * Grab the 4-line header out of the spoolfile.
  	 */
  	if (
! 	    (fscanf(infile,"# owner: %127s\n",owner) != 1) ||
! 	    (fscanf(infile,"# jobname: %127s\n",jobname) != 1) ||
! 	    (fscanf(infile,"# shell: %3s\n",shell) != 1) ||
! 	    (fscanf(infile,"# notify by mail: %3s\n",mailvar) != 1)
  	    ) {
  		fprintf(stderr, "%s: bad spool header\n", spoolfile);
  		exit(1);

Sven-Ove Westberg, CAD, University of Lulea, S-951 87 Lulea, Sweden.
ARPA:    sow%cad.luth.se@ucbvax.berkeley.edu  (only dumb ARPA mailers)