Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 12:00:02 -0800 (PST) From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/2747: at cannot be run in an atjob Message-ID: <199702162000.MAA23111@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/2747; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To: thompson@tgsoft.com
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/2747: at cannot be run in an atjob
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 20:48:18 +0100
As mark thompson wrote:
> You cannot submit an at job from within an at job, since the submitted
> job will have the wrong mail address, and atrun will reject it. The
People might consider this a feature. :-) So you can't defeat a
cron.deny entry with just an at.allow one.
> comments suggest that the code in question (see below) is a hangover
> from an earlier day, and no longer appropriate.
No, the comments don't suggest this to me, sorry.
> - /* Get the userid to mail to, first by trying getlogin(), which reads
> - * /etc/utmp, then from LOGNAME, finally from getpwuid().
> + /* Get the userid to mail to, first by LOGNAME, then from getpwuid().
> */
> - mailname = getlogin();
> - if (mailname == NULL)
> - mailname = getenv("LOGNAME");
> + mailname = getenv("LOGNAME");
No, sorry, the preference of getlogin() over LOGNAME is a normal
sequence. getlogin() is much harder to fake.
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