Bug#316442: at does not mail job output if at command is installed by root

Ansgar Burchardt wrote: On my system, root's mail is redirected to my own account (mwg) through /etc/aliases : root: mwg so, the testcase is to submit at/batch job under root, and then you don't get its output when you use courier-mta as sendmail. Can you please try to send mail

Bug#316442: at does not mail job output if at command is installed by root

tags 316442 - moreinfo clone 316442 -1 reassign -1 courier-mta retitle -1 courier-mta: cannot use sendmail as root with stdout, stderr closed thanks Hi, Wladimir Mutel m...@mwg.dp.ua writes: Finally, I dared to strace atd and its subprocesses, and found the difference between

Bug#316442: at does not mail job output if at command is installed by root

Hi, Wladimir Mutel m...@mwg.dp.ua writes: Finally, I dared to strace atd and its subprocesses, and found the difference between sendmail run for root and non-root user. Being run from atd, sendmail process does not have open stdout and stderr file descriptors. And

Bug#316442: at does not mail job output if at command is installed by root

Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Finally, I dared to strace atd and its subprocesses, and found the difference between sendmail run for root and non-root user. Being run from atd, sendmail process does not have open stdout and stderr file descriptors. And courier's

Bug#316442: at does not mail job output if at command is installed by root

Ansgar Burchardt wrote: tags 316442 + moreinfo thanks Hi, I recently took over maintenance of at and am going over the open bug reports. You reported quite some time ago, that at will not mail command output for jobs queued by root when using ssmtp or courier-mta. Is this still the case?

Bug#316442: at does not mail job output if at command is installed by root

Hi, Wladimir Mutel m...@mwg.dp.ua writes: On my system, root's mail is redirected to my own account (mwg) through /etc/aliases : root: mwg so, the testcase is to submit at/batch job under root, and then you don't get its output when you use courier-mta as sendmail. Can you please try to

Bug#316442: at does not mail job output if at command is installed by root

tags 316442 + moreinfo thanks Hi, I recently took over maintenance of at and am going over the open bug reports. You reported quite some time ago, that at will not mail command output for jobs queued by root when using ssmtp or courier-mta. Is this still the case? If so, can you send mail to

Bug#316442: at does not mail job output if at command is installed by root

Package: at Version: 3.1.8-11 Severity: important When root installs an at command the command is run but the results are not mailed. User IDs other than 0 work as expected. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500,