question regarding removing files under /usr/spool/cron/atjobs

From: L (traill2003@yahoo.com)
Date: 04/23/03 

From: traill2003@yahoo.com (L)
Date: 22 Apr 2003 18:24:29 -0700

I have a list of files (around 6,000) under /usr/spool/cron/atjobs
shown under my user ID that I want to remove:

/usr/spool/cron/atjobs> ls -iltr |grep lxu|head -10
   1690588 -r-Sr--r-- 1 lxu dbrm 3286 Feb 18 14:47 _at24
   1690587 -r-Sr--r-- 1 lxu dbrm 3286 Feb 18 14:47 _at12
   1690593 -r-Sr--r-- 1 lxu dbrm 3286 Feb 18 14:47 _at79
   1690592 -r-Sr--r-- 1 lxu dbrm 3286 Feb 18 14:47 _at68
   1690591 -r-Sr--r-- 1 lxu dbrm 3286 Feb 18 14:47 _at57
   1690590 -r-Sr--r-- 1 lxu dbrm 3286 Feb 18 14:47 _at46
   1690598 -r-Sr--r-- 1 lxu dbrm 3286 Feb 18 14:47
_at135
   1690597 -r-Sr--r-- 1 lxu dbrm 3286 Feb 18 14:47
_at124
   1690596 -r-Sr--r-- 1 lxu dbrm 3286 Feb 18 14:47
_at113
   1690595 -r-Sr--r-- 1 lxu dbrm 3286 Feb 18 14:47
_at102

However, when I use "vi" to open these files, it indicates that the
file I am trying to open is a "new file" and the content, of course,
is empty.

When I try to remove these job entries by at -r, the following happens

/usr/spool/cron/atjobs> at -r _at24
at: _at24: No such file or directory

I am so puzzled by the situation.

Because the /usr/spool/cron/atjobs is owned by root, and I do not have
write access to the directory, I cannot remove these files underneath
the directory with rm command even though they belong to me.

Lots of thanks!
L

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