on 01/07/2010 12:27 AM Joachim Schipper wrote the following:
> On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 11:04:41PM +0100, Adriaan wrote:
>> 2010/1/6 Thanasis <thana...@asyr.hopto.org>:
>>> When we get a message like the following, is there a way to see _what_
>>> was in that job?
>>>
>>> Your "at" job on <hostname>
>>> "/var/cron/atjobs/1262799360.c"
>>> produced the following output:
>>> /bin/ksh: <stdin>[3]: no closing quote
>>
>> The answer is can be found in the man page for at(1)
>>
>> $ at -c 1262799360.c
>>
>> You can check the error before submitting with:
>>
>> $ sh -nv myatjobfile
>
> Yes, but neither is terribly useful after the command has been executed
> (and errored out).
True.
>
> I'm not aware of anything that helps, short of restoring
> /var/cron/atjobs from backup.
>
> Joachim
>
>
I think I will try a cron job to backup the atjobs dir.
Thanks.
