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Date:      Tue, 18 Feb 1997 09:05:18 +0100
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bin/2747: at cannot be run in an atjob
Message-ID:  <Mutt.19970218090518.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <97Feb17.191803pst.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>; from Bill Fenner on Feb 17, 1997 19:17:56 -0700
References:  <199702162000.MAA23111@freefall.freebsd.org> <97Feb17.191803pst.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>

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As Bill Fenner wrote:

> >People might consider this a feature. :-) So you can't defeat a
> >cron.deny entry with just an at.allow one.
> 
> pbbht.  I have a cron job which attempts to fetch today's Dilbert,
> but if it fails because the net is too congested it resubmits itself
> for an hour later as an at job.  Do you think this is an illicit
> use of at?

Nope, but we were speaking about at(1) here, not cron. :)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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