Identify and kill job running from AT 1

[jbonin]

I have an interesting problem I hope some of you UNIX
wizards might be able to shed some light on and make some suggestions, or even possibly some "close" code I could
work from to make this work.

I need to be able to kill a process that was submitted to
the AT command, but is now running as a process. The job
will be running and killed from the account that submitted
the job originally to AT, but it is the identity of the PID
that seems to be problem. It looks like several PID's get
created for the one job that was kicked off, and the
command shell name is usually not part of the job when
showing the output from "ps -ef".

Any good ideas?

Thanks,
John

 

[RobJordan]

guess you need to take note of the ID number
that at assigns when you the job is initially scheduled.

# at 6 am Friday
echo "hello!"
warning: commands will be executed using /usr/bin/sh
job 1018008000.a at Fri Apr 5 06:00:00 2002
# at -l
user = root 1018008000.a Fri Apr 5 06:00:00 2002
# at -r 1018008000.a

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in a script you may be able to do something like this...
run your at command, then
AT_ID=`at -l|tail -1|awk '{print $4}'
at -r $AT_ID

Robert Robert G. Jordan

Robert@JORDAN2000.com

http://www.JORDAN2000.com/scripts

Unix Sys Admin
Chicago, Illinois U.S.A.

 

[jbonin]

Thanks Robert, but once the job is "running", it is no longer available for output from "at -l", right? This may be a runaway job that was submitted to run immediately from the AT command.

John

 

[RobJordan]

try

at -d [job id]

also look at the man pages for at if you haven't
already done so.

man at

Robert
Robert G. Jordan

Robert@JORDAN2000.com

http://www.JORDAN2000.com/scripts

Unix Sys Admin
Chicago, Illinois U.S.A.

 

[jbonin]

I guess I should have mentioned this is AIX and I don't
see a -d argument for the AT command.

at -d
Usage: at [-c|-k|-s|-q {a|b|e|f}] [-m] [-f File] Time [Day] [Increment]
Usage: at [-c|-k|-s|-q {a|b|e|f}] [-m] [-f File] -t [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.SS]
Usage: at -l [-o] [ JobNumber... | -q {a|b|e|f} ]
Usage: at -r [-Fi] JobNumber ... [-u User]
Usage: at -n [User]

John