Package 'at' is broken

[Christian Andretzky]

Binary package hint: at

simply try to create a at-job. The job is created and placed into the at-queue. But the job is never executed. After a unknown time the job is automatically removed from the queue.
I saw this problem on feisty (7.04) and edgy (6.10) too.
With this problem the system is completely unuseable because some of our maintenance (security) tasks require this feature.

[Ralph Corderoy (ralph-inputplus)]

Here's a simple test. Can you try it please. at(1) is working for some of us so we need to find out why your experience differs.

$ echo touch /tmp/created_by_at | at now
warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh
job 3787 at 2007-08-13 11:45
$ ls -l /tmp/created_by_at
-rw-r--r-- 1 ralph ralph 0 2007-08-13 11:45 /tmp/created_by_at
$

[Christian Andretzky (christian-andretzky-mb)]

Ooops - because there was no reaction for the lon time I forgot to close this bug - sorry.
The reason for my problem was located in a wrong description how to integrate the pam-logindevperm package into the system.
In the description I found in the web, it was suggested to include/append the line 'session required pam_devperm.so' to /etc/pam.d/common-session.

Never do this. The suggested line instead has to included directly to the _really_ involved files: /etc/pam.d/{gdm|kdm|login} for example.

If the line 'session required pam_devperm.so' is located in common-session the cron utility will no longer work, because common-session is also included in /etc/pam.d/cron and the authentication fails.

Sorry again for the false alarm.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

Closing as Invalid, as per reporter's comment.
Thank you for reporting back.