At: page 1
If you are having problems getting Ubuntu atd running
If you just cannot get atd to start running check the permissions on your /var/spool/cron/atjobs and /var/spool/cron/atspool directories. The should be `chmod 770` and then `chmod +t`. Also they should be owned by `daemon:daemon`. I was getting this error when attempting to set new at jobs: Can’t open /var/run/atd.pid to signal atd. No atd running? If I tried to start the daemon through the service management I was getting: sudo service atd start start: Job is already running: atd Read more ⇒