I agree with your interpretation of the problem. So I will make a
release to see on the wild what may break.
Kind regards
Jose M Calhariz
On 17/03/16 17:19, Andreas Schweitzer wrote:
> Package: at
> Version: 3.1.16-1
> Severity: important
> Tags: upstream
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> When a job is running longer than CHECK_INTERVAL (defined in atd.c, currently
> 3600 seconds),
> and run_file() is called (e.g. a second job is submitted after a bit more
> than an hour) it will be removed from ATJOB_DIR and atq no longer reports
> this job.
> However, the job will happily finish. Yet, this is pretty confusing.
>
> This is caused in atd.c inside an if-clause where a comment contains
> a "FIXME". From my understanding, this if-clause can be removed alltogether
> because the file is more than just a lockfile. It serves as
> documentation for atq. Furthermore, this script-file will be removed
> upon job completion.
> However, maybe I am missing some circumstances where it is necessary to
> remove this file at this point.
>
> To reproduce, send this to at:
> echo -n start
> date
> sleep 7000
> echo -n end
> date
>
> end after one hour, submit something else. The first job will be gone,
> but ps ax can still see the sleep and eventually you will get mail.
>
> I found this on a Ubuntu system, but I use a Debian system to report
> the bug.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 8.3
> APT prefers stable-updates
> APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: armhf (armv7l)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-armmp (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=locale: Cannot set
> LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
> UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
>
> Versions of packages at depends on:
> ii init-system-helpers 1.22
> ii libc62.19-18+deb8u3
> ii libpam-runtime 1.1.8-3.1+deb8u1
> ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.1+deb8u1
> ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian13+nmu1
>
> Versions of packages at recommends:
> ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.84.2-1
>
> at suggests no packages.
>
> -- Configuration Files:
> /etc/at.deny [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/at.deny'
>
> -- debconf information excluded
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