** Changed in: at (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Medium
Status: New = Confirmed
** Summary changed:
- The 'at' command fails to execute commands at the given times and dates
+ Unexported $DISPLAY prevents `at' from executing GUI apps
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Unexported $DISPLAY prevents `at' from
Problem still exists in Ubuntu 8.04 - Any program that requires a GUI is
unable to run without the export DISPLAY=... line.
FYI this is the same problem people are having with cron and crontab.
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The 'at' command fails to execute commands at the given times and dates
Ok, so the missing export of $DISPLAY appears to be the problem (amarok
requires this, too).
Here's a quote from at.c however:
/* Write out the environment. Anything that may look like a
* special character to the shell is quoted, except for \n, which is
* done with a pair of 's.
Hi, same problem here on feisty.
I ran your simple test Ralph:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ % echo touch /tmp/created_by_at | at now
warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh
job 8 at Tue Oct 16 23:32:00 2007
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~% ls -al /tmp/created_by_at
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nicolas users 0 2007-10-16
If you export DISPLAY before your command it works:
try :
echo export DISPLAY=$DISPLAY \\ zenity --warning|at now
Nicolas
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The 'at' command fails to execute commands at the given times and dates
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/94933
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Here's a simple test. Can you try it please. at(1) is working for some
of us so we need to find out why your experience differs.
$ echo touch /tmp/created_by_at | at now
warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh
job 3787 at 2007-08-13 11:45
$ ls -l /tmp/created_by_at
-rw-r--r-- 1 ralph
Ralph,
Wow, it's nice to know that people are still hacking away at
this problem. Below are my results from your test. Good
luck!
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo touch /tmp/created_by_at | at
now
warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh
job 27 at Mon Aug 13 21:06:00 2007
[EMAIL
Same problem in bug 113988
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The 'at' command fails to execute commands at the given times and dates
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/94933
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Sourcepackagename: kubuntu-default-settings = at
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