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There are empty task files in the atd task directory (/var/spool/cron/atspool), causing atd to hog CPU and fill up syslog too quickly!

(When atd encounters an empty file it massively spams syslog with messages such as the following (200 per second on a small arm processor):

atd[3410]: File a0011601410541 is in wrong format - aborting

Removing the empty files and restarting atd will bring the system to normal state. But, want to know if there is any way to prevent this from happening.

There are many forums where this seems to be discussed, but no solutions, Does anyone know how to fix this, or any workarounds.

msouth
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Remove at, if you don't use it.

dpkg --purge at
Ipor Sircer
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