Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 01:26:15 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Studded <Studded@dal.net>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Anyone using 'at' ? Message-ID: <19981004012615.A887@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <36170915.CBBD5189@dal.net>; from "Studded" on Sat Oct 3 22:35:17 GMT 1998 References: <36170915.CBBD5189@dal.net>
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In the last episode (Oct 03), Studded said: > I got interested in using the 'at' utility to schedule some work and > found out that it doesn't seem to be matching the behavior described > in the man pages. I am loathe to call this a bug because I'm totally > unfamiliar 'at' and it might be pilot error. > > To start with, if I type in a very simple command like: > > at 22:29 command > > it never returns, and the job never executes. Doing anything more > exciting (like is described in the man page) such as: Check the manpage. At expects the script to be supplied from stdin (or a filename specified by -f). > at now + 5 seconds command > > I get "at: incomplete time" The manpage doesn't list a seconds parameter. Since the at queue is processed at 5-minute intervals from /etc/crontab, per-second resolution isn't necessary. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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