How do I kill an at job?

jjge · 02-16-2009, 01:06 PM

I have started an infinite job under at. Now I want to stop it, and I cannot find out, how!

atq shows nothing, neither under root nor as myself. Well, I guess it isn't queued anymore...

It is also not shown under "ps ax", well, I guess that it runs under atd.

In man atd I found that atd looks in the /var/spool/atjobs directory. That contained one file .SEQ . I deleted that file, but still my infinite job comes back to life, even when I restart the whole system :-(

jjge · 02-16-2009, 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by jjge

It is also not shown under "ps ax", well, I guess that it runs under atd.

Wrong guess... I KILLed atd, but the job is still running.

jjge · 02-17-2009, 02:35 AM

I tried lsof | grep traffix (traffix is the logfile) and I found a sleep 60s commando. Aha! That's right; the job is a continuous while ... sleep 60 cycle. Well, I killed it, and it reappeared with a different PID.

I renamed the command script, and restarted the whole system, and finally the job went away.

And I still don't know, how it resurrected every time, even after a full restart of the system.

AwesomeMachine · 02-17-2009, 05:26 AM

At was running under init, with respawn specified. That's a tough one.

jjge · 02-17-2009, 05:39 AM

... but then it should be in /etc/inittab, shouldn't it?