Hello Members,
I want you to be aware of the strange issue that I faced on one of our CentOS servers. System log file /var/log/messages was flooded with the error message as below. The log file was so large with these messages that the server ran our of disk space.
Quoteserver atd[10055]: File a0001a015f162e is in wrong format - aborting
This should be due to the at command which was not executed properly. You will have to find the job number and then remove the job from the queue.
Quote# atq a0001a015f162e
It should show an output as below. This will help to get hold of the job number.
Quote# 15 2013-10-05 00:42 a root
Here, the job number is 15. Use the command below to remove the job number from queue.
Quote# atrm 15
This should stop occupying the disk space on the server.