From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Feb 18 00:21:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA06846 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 00:21:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA06820 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 00:21:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA02502 for freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 09:21:29 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id JAA16426; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 09:05:18 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: 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 References: <199702162000.MAA23111@freefall.freebsd.org> <97Feb17.191803pst.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <97Feb17.191803pst.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>; from Bill Fenner on Feb 17, 1997 19:17:56 -0700 Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)