Package: at Version: 3.1.10 Severity: normal After updating to Etch, some of my scripts stopped working because the batch command no longer understands the -f parameter. In Sarge this parameter did work (I did not see a note about this during the update, shouldn't there be a message for apt-listchanges to inform about incompatible changes?).
Looking through the at manpage, I found the description of batch's
parameters in the SYNOPSIS to be correct:
SYNOPSIS
at [-V] [-q queue] [-f file] [-mldbv] TIME
at -c job [job...]
atq [-V] [-q queue]
atrm [-V] job [job...]
batch
But in the DESCRIPTION batch is listed as still having the -f
parameter:
DESCRIPTION
[...]
For both at and batch, commands are read from standard input or the
file specified with the -f option and executed.
The manpage should not contradict itself.
(Why not bringing the -f parameter back?)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages at depends on:
ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-tr 4.63-17 lightweight exim MTA (v4) daemon
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libpam0g 0.79-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii lsb-base 3.1-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
at recommends no packages.
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