Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 13:15:35 -0600 (CST) From: Dave Bodenstab <imdave@synet.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.com, thompson@tgsoft.com Subject: Re: at Message-ID: <199702151915.NAA22396@base486.synet.net>
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> From: mark thompson <thompson@tgsoft.com>
>
> I sometimes like to write at scripts that resubmit themselves, perhaps
> one day later (sometimes this is cooler than using cron).
>
> This doesn't work on FreeBSD 2.1.6 (at least on my system) because the
> resubmitted script starts out with:
>
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A similar problem occurs if you ``su'' and then attempt to
use at/batch. I solved the problem for me with the following patch.
Did I break something? Don't know, don't care, since it works for me.
Dave Bodenstab
imdave@synet.net
*** at.c 1995/08/20 18:26:26 2.0
--- at.c 1995/08/20 18:27:19 2.0.1.1
***************
*** 271,290 ****
if((fp = fdopen(fdes, "w")) == NULL)
panic("Cannot reopen atjob file");
! /* Get the userid to mail to, first by trying getlogin(), which reads
! * /etc/utmp, then from LOGNAME, finally from getpwuid().
*/
! mailname = getlogin();
! if (mailname == NULL)
! mailname = getenv("LOGNAME");
!
! if ((mailname == NULL) || (mailname[0] == '\0')
! || (strlen(mailname) > 8) || (getpwnam(mailname)==NULL))
! {
! pass_entry = getpwuid(getuid());
! if (pass_entry != NULL)
! mailname = pass_entry->pw_name;
! }
if (atinput != (char *) NULL)
{
--- 271,283 ----
if((fp = fdopen(fdes, "w")) == NULL)
panic("Cannot reopen atjob file");
! /* Get the userid to mail to from getpwuid(geteuid()).
*/
! pass_entry = getpwuid(geteuid());
! if (pass_entry != NULL)
! mailname = pass_entry->pw_name;
! else
! mailname = "root";
if (atinput != (char *) NULL)
{
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