On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Holger Kunst wrote:
Hi,
The "at" command sends an email with the output of the scheduled job. I've
experienced inconsistent results when running jobs, receiving emails in
accounts not associated with the user currently logged in.
To reproduce in FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p2
Case #1
login as user a (new shell through ssh)
echo "echo 1" | at now
--> user a will receive an email containing "1" - this is as expected
Case #2
login as user a (new shell through ssh)
login as user b
How are you accomplishing this?
exit
echo "echo 1" | at now
--> user b will receive an email containing "1" - this is not as expected,
since I am user a again
A look at the source for "at" reveals that "at" is getting the mailname from
getlogin(). Running a small test program that outputs getlogin(), confirms
the above behavior: A log-in and out of another account makes getlogin()
return that account's name, even though the shell has been closed and we are
back to the original shell and the original user a.
Is this the intended behavior? Any hints would be appreciated.
--
Nate Eldredge
n...@thatsmathematics.com
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