'at' command and apache user

[Cameron Simpson]

On 16Jun2011 18:58, Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk> wrote:
| Hopefully this is a quickie.  I've written a Perl script which
| 
| 1) I call to initialise - this then schedules another run using the 'at' 
| command
| 
| 2) is run by 'at' at the appropriate time to carry out the required task
| 
| This works fine under the developer user but when I call it from PHP in my web 
| server the 2nd part fails and generates the following email.
| 
| Subject: Output from your job       17
| From: Apache <apache at ringways.co.uk>
|   To: apache at ringways.co.uk
|   Date: Today 18:51:00
|    
| This account is currently not available.
| 
| I have tried creating /etc/at.allow and adding apache. /etc/at.deny us empty
| 
| it still doesn't work. Can anyone suggest what I need to do next please.

Might the account be "locked"? Check out the /etc/shadow file - "!!"
instead of "x" in the crypt field. May as well check the account has a
shell too: /bin/sh instead of /bin/false.

Cheers,
-- 
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> DoD#743
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