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Date:      Sun, 16 Apr 1995 02:08:09 +0400
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" <ache@astral.msk.su>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, Mike Pritchard <pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu>
Subject:   Re: at (was Re: List of open Problem Reports)
Message-ID:  <AQ9F4aleM1@astral.msk.su>
In-Reply-To: <199504151615.LAA07985@mpp.com>; from Mike Pritchard at Sat, 15 Apr 1995 11:15:36 -0500 (CDT)
References:  <199504151615.LAA07985@mpp.com>

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In message <199504151615.LAA07985@mpp.com> Mike Pritchard writes:

>Speaking of the new at, it no longer supports abbreviations for 
>minute/hour/day/week like the old at did.  E.g. I can't do:
>"at now +1d", instead I have to do "at now +1day" instead.
>The old abbreviations were: min/m/hr/h/d/w.  It might be nice
>to get them back.

It is original author intention, please contact with him
on this subject.

>The new at also is unable to remove at jobs from the queue.  E.g. atrm 
>doesn't work, and interrupting at while it is reading stdin for 
>commands fails to remove the /var/at/jobs/XXX file.  This is because
>the REDUCDE_PRIVS macro in at winds up setting both uid/euid to
>the uid of the caller.

I just commit the fix.

-- 
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