[Wien] Warning: at daemon not running

[Laurence Marks]

Do man atd (to see what your system has) and then check the log files
which are probably in /var/log. Of course you need to be root (su) to
do any of this.

N.B., this is not exactly a Wien2k issue.

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 8:09 AM, reza sotudeh <sotudeh.reza at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Dear Gerhard
>>> We checked the at.allow and at.deny. The problem is not due to these
>>> files too.
>>>  your
>>> Reza Sotudeh
>>> reza sotudeh <sotudeh.reza at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi
>>> Dear Dr. Jalali
>>> This is the first response to our qestion.I hope this help us.
>>> Thank you.
>>> regards.
>>> Reza Sotudeh
>>>>
>>>> check the files
>>>> at.allow and at.deny, maybe you are not allowed to use it.
>>>> On some systems the user that likes to use at or batch needs in addition
>>>> to be in the group at.
>>>> The demon should be started during the boot sequence and not every time
>>>> you like to use it.
>>>>
>>>> Ciao
>>>> Gerhard
>>>> ________________________________________
>>>> Von: wien-bounces at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at
>>>> [wien-bounces at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at] im Auftrag von reza sotudeh
>>>> [sotudeh.reza at gmail.com]
>>>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 10. Juni 2008 10:48
>>>> An: Wien at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at
>>>> Betreff: [Wien] Warning: at daemon not running
>>>>
>>>> Dear All,
>>>> We would run our program using at daemon. We see the following error
>>>> after pushing CTRL+D:
>>>>
>>>> Warning: at daemon not running
>>>>
>>>> We then tried to restart the atd service as follows:
>>>> [root at localhost ~]# /etc/init.d/atd restart
>>>> Stopping atd:                                              [FAILED]
>>>> Starting atd:                                              [  OK  ]
>>>>
>>>> as you see the service is up. But again we got the last error, i.e.,
>>>> Warning: at daemon not running.
>>>> Then we tried to stop the service of atd. The result is:
>>>> [root at localhost ~]# /etc/init.d/atd stop
>>>> Stopping atd:                                              [FAILED]
>>>>
>>>> So we wonder why we cannot stop the bringing up service atd.
>>>> We then tried to make a trick. Our trick is:
>>>>  echo 1234 >/var/run/atd.pid
>>>> then we tried to bringing up the service again:
>>>> [root at localhost ~]# /etc/init.d/atd restart
>>>> Stopping atd:                                              [FAILED]
>>>> Starting atd:                                              [  OK  ]
>>>>
>>>> after this we observe that the at daemon does work.
>>>> We thought that the problem is fixed. But unfortunately we observed the
>>>> problem again by resubmitting another job.
>>>> So we tried once more the above procedure. Sometime the above discussed
>>>> procedure works well, and sometime it fails.
>>>> We tried to reinstall the atd service, as we just thought that maybe the
>>>> problem comes from the atd service. But this also could not help.
>>>> We changed on another machine,  which at daemon there worked well, the
>>>> stack size to unlimited. Then we found that the at daemon also on this
>>>> machine fails to work.
>>>>
>>>> We appreciate if you help us to fix this sever unexpected problem.
>>>> Your,
>>>> M. Sotudeh
>>>>
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