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Old 07-05-2011
[ksh] at -f at.file now not working on Solaris.
I am having problems with the at command on Solaris 10.
There is a HP-UX 11i script that executes another script using at, but on Solaris 10 it doesn't work.

HP-UX:

Code:
# cat /tmp/at.file
date

# at -f /tmp/at.file now
warning: commands will be executed using /usr/bin/sh
job 1309845410.a at Tue Jul  5 05:56:50 2011

Solaris 10:

Code:
# cat /tmp/at.file
date

# at -f /tmp/at.file now
at: getdate: There is no line in the template that matches the input

Any idea why Solaris is giving me a hard time on this simple, basic command ??

Greetings,

ejdv
# 2  
Old 07-05-2011
Try to unset $DATEMSK and try again. There seems to be a problem with this environment variable.
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ejdv
# 3  
Old 07-05-2011
Thanks for the quick reply.

Code:
# unset $DATEMSK
ksh: /SA/data/tim/data/timdatemsk: is not an identifier

# at -f /tmp/at.file now
at: getdate: There is no line in the template that matches the input

Code:
# cat $DATEMSK
%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S
%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S
%m/%d/%y %H:%M
%m/%d/%Y %H:%M
%m/%d/%y %H
%m/%d/%Y %H
%m/%d/%y %I:%M:%S %p
%m/%d/%Y %I:%M:%S %p
%m/%d/%y %I:%M %p
%m/%d/%Y %I:%M %p
%m/%d/%y %I %p
%m/%d/%Y %I %p
%m/%d/%y
%m/%d/%Y
%m/%d
%b %d, %Y %H:%M:%S %p
%b %d, %Y %I:%M:%S
%B %d, %Y %H:%M:%S %p
%B %d, %Y %I:%M:%S
%b %d, %Y %H:%M %p
%b %d, %Y %I:%M
%B %d, %Y %H:%M %p
%B %d, %Y %I:%M
%b %d, %Y %H %p
%b %d, %Y %I
%B %d, %Y %H %p
%B %d, %Y %I
%b %d, %Y
%B %d, %Y
%b %d
%B %d
%m%d9/22/89M%y
%m%d9/22/89M%Y
%m%d9/22/89M
%m%d%H
%m%d
%y%m%d%H%M%S
%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
%Y%m%d%H%M%S

It has only the "%Y%m%d%H%M%S" entry more than the HP-UX $DATEMSK.
The timedatemsk file is from the application.

---------- Post updated at 08:59 AM ---------- Previous update was at 08:34 AM ----------

Code:
# unset DATEMSK

nbsol228 (ISA SEC)# at -f /tmp/at.file now
commands will be executed using /sbin/sh
job 1309849085.a at Tue Jul  5 06:58:05 2011

So it is unset without the $ sign.
I was mistaken there.
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