`at` command: syntax error near unexpected token

leniviy · 09-16-2015, 05:05 AM

Trying to learn `at` command. Want to schedule `date` to run instantly. Getting an email with strange error.

Have Rhel 6.6. Maybe it's bash-completion? Have version 1.3-7.

Code:

    $ echo date | at now
    $
    $
    You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/wasuser
    $ mail
    Heirloom Mail version 12.4 7/29/08.  Type ? for help.
    "/var/spool/mail/wasuser": 1 message 1 new
    >N  1 wasuser@ec-prod-app-  Wed Sep 16 12:53  16/686   "Output from your job        1"
    & 1
    Message  1:
    From wasuser@myhost  Wed Sep 16 12:53:14 2015
    Return-Path: <wasuser@myhost>
    X-Original-To: wasuser
    Delivered-To: wasuser@myhost
    Subject: Output from your job        1
    To: wasuser@myhost
    Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 12:53:14 +0300 (GMT-3)
    From: wasuser@myhost
    Status: R
    
    sh: line 44: syntax error near unexpected token `=\(\)\ {\ \ eval\ \`/usr/bin/modulecmd\ bash\ \$\*\`"
    "}'
    sh: line 44: `"}; export BASH_FUNC_module()'
    
    & d

hortageno · 09-16-2015, 06:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by leniviy

Trying to learn `at` command. Want to schedule `date` to run instantly. Getting an email with strange error.

Have Rhel 6.6. Maybe it's bash-completion? Have version 1.3-7.

Please post the whole script. Nobody (or at least I) can help you with that fragment.

rknichols · 09-16-2015, 09:50 AM

You've run into an incompatibility between 'at' jobs and the way the bash now exports functions (part of the "shellshock" patch). See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1147043.

If you update to RHEL 6.7, you will get at-3.1.10-48.el6, and the problem should be corrected.