can not get at to work properly

[Krister Enger]

Trying to get an at command to work

echo "cat /etc/passwd | mailx -s \"Test\" user@host" | at now + 1 minute

Running only:
cat /etc/passwd | mailx -s \"Test\" user@host
works fine

When I run:
at -l
I can see that a job is listed there and it dissappears from after one minute. Same thing with /var/spool/cron/atjobs
The at-job is also noted in cron's logfile with no error messages.

No error messages are found.
I run as root and root is in the at.allow file, there is no at.deny file

Any suggestions??
//Krister

[David Bonham_1]

If anyone is viewing this thread on a Windows box and their Norton/Symantec anti-virus pops-up complaining about the unix.penguin virus don't worry!

Norton thinks the line: cat password file piped to mail is a malicious shell script.

See: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/pf/unix.penguin.html

>/dev/null

[Patrick Wallek]

What if you do this.

Put you command in a file:

# cat /tmp/testfile
cat /etc/passwd | mailx -s Test user@host

Make sure the file is ececutable:
# chmod 500 /tmp/testfile
Now try this at command:

# at -f /tmp/testfile now + 1 minute

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi,

The at runs fine on our systems.
Do you have any mail saying that the mail didn't go through or is there any error in mail log?

greetings,

Michael

[Gary L. Paveza, Jr.]

Why are you using the echo "cat..." command? If you're trying to get the output of the cat /etc/passwd to be mailed, you would eliminate the echo. The way you have it now, it echo's the line "cat /etc/passwd | mailx -s....". If anything, I would expect that the user ID that this is running under to get an email with the output of the echo command - no email would be generated from the mailx command (since it isn't being executed"