Comment 1 for bug 138743

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Kenneth P. Turvey (ktectropy) wrote : Re: [Bug 138743] The utility "at" does not work. Always reports the error, "Cannot give away file: Operation not permitted"

Somehow this bug ended up assigned to the wrong project, but I can't see
how to reassign it. Anybody that knows how should probably move it to
the project that contains at.

On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 19:57 +0000, Kenneth P. Turvey wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> $ at now+1minute
> at> ls
> at> <EOT>
>
> The last line is produced by typing in ctrl-D to end input.
>
> at reports the error:
>
> Cannot give away file: Operation not permitted.
>
> This occurs even if the user trying to run at is root.
>
> ** Affects: launchpad-report-tool
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>