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Subject: docs/29549: at(1) has erroneous statement about /var/at/at.deny
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>Number:         29549
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       at(1) has erroneous statement about /var/at/at.deny
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Aug 08 11:30:03 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Gary W. Swearingen
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386
>Organization:
none
>Environment:
n/a
================
>Description:

The at(1) page erroneously says "An empty /var/at/at.deny means that
every user is allowed use these commands."

Comment:
The observed behavior seems better than the documented behavior so
I'm happy seeing the man page changed rather than the program, but
one wonders why the comment was ever included.  Perhaps the code has
broken and with later be fixed, requiring another man page reversion.
================
>How-To-Repeat:

Delete/rename /var/at/at.{allow,deny}.  As a non-root user, do 
"touch /var/at/at.deny; atq".  Observe usage denial message.
================
>Fix:

patch -d "some uncompressed man/man1 dir" < this-PR

*** /tmp/old-at.1	Wed Aug  8 10:30:00 2001
--- /tmp/at.1		Wed Aug  8 10:50:09 2001
***************
*** 170,178 ****
  .Nm Ns .
  This is the default configuration.
  .Pp
- An empty 
- .Pa /var/at/at.deny
- means that every user is allowed use these commands.
  .Sh OPTIONS
  .Bl -tag -width indent
  .It Fl V
--- 170,175 ----
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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