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07-26-2005

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Hi, Perderabo -
Your suggestion was helpful! In the environmentless ksh, the at command was scheduled at the proper time. Of course, with no environment vars defined, it used GMT. When I then added only this one env var definition:
export TZ=:/usr/lib/locale/TZ/US/Eastern
the 2-hours-off symptom began to occur in this "stripped down" shell.

I compared this Eastern file to one on a related system (that schedules OK) and the files are identical. I even copied it over from a "good" system to try it, but with no effect. I also tried other TZ files, Central, etc. and, while the time changed, depending on the TZ value, the 2-hours-off symptom persisted.

One detail about TZ I don't understand.
When I assigned this value to TZ (i.e. without a leading colon):
export TZ=/usr/lib/locale/TZ/US/Eastern
the variable seems to be ignored. The at schedule used GMT, as if TZ were not set.
However, if it is set this way:
export TZ=:/usr/lib/locale/TZ/US/Eastern
the symptom always occurs.

So, your suggestion has helped shed a little light on this.
It is somehow connected to the TZ setting, but it's not clear exactly where the problem is. Do you have any follow-up ideas? Thanks!

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NAME

       faxq - display fax jobs queued by faxspool(1)

SYNOPSIS

       faxq [-osa] [-v] [-r] [-P<job><prio>]

DESCRIPTION

       Display the fax queue set up by faxspool(1).

       faxq looks for all the jobs queued by faxspool(1) to /var/spool/fax/outgoing/*. For each job in the queue, faxq displays some status infor-
       mations about it. If no options are specified, one line per queued fax job is printed, displaying the job number, sender, number  of  pages
       and target fax number.

OPTIONS

       -v     Tells faxq to print a more verbose report for each job (multiple lines).

       -o     Show old jobs, already sent but still in the queue directory, too.

       -s     Show suspended jobs (stopped because of too many fatal errors during sending). You can restart those jobs with faxq -r

       -a     Show all jobs (active, old, suspended).

       -r     Restart  suspended  jobs.  Every	suspended  job	in the queue (that you have write permissions for) will be requeued.  Use faxrm to
	      delete jobs that you do not want to be sent!

       -P <job> <prio>
	      Change the priority of fax job <job> to <prio>. Example: "faxq -P F000247 3".

BUGS

       faxq doesn't handle time scheduling yet.

SEE ALSO

       faxrunq(1), faxspool(1), faxrm(1), faxqueue(5)

AUTHOR

       faxq is Copyright (C) 1993 by Gert Doering, <gert@greenie.muc.de>.

greenie 							     27 Oct 93								   faxq(1)