Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 17:46:15 -0800 (AKDT) From: Steve Howe <groggy@iname.com> To: freebsd-questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Anyone using 'at' ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981004174229.478B-100000@abc.xyz.net> In-Reply-To: <36170915.CBBD5189@dal.net>
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On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Studded wrote:
AT(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual AT(1)
at [-V] [-q queue] [-f file] [-mldbv] time
at [-V] -c job [job ...]
atq [-V] [-q queue] [-v]
atrm [-V] job [job ...]
batch [-V] [-q queue] [-f file] [-mv] [time]
the invocation of atrun.
For both at and batch, commands are read from standard input or the file
specified with the -f option and executed. The working directory, the
-f file
Reads the job from file rather than standard input.
-c Cats the jobs listed on the command line to standard output.
> 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:
>
> at now + 5 seconds command
>
> I get "at: incomplete time. So as far as I can see, the thing is totally
> non-operational, although I'd be happy to be proven wrong. I'm using a
> very recent -Stable and Bash 2.02.1 in case it matters. I've tried
> running it both as a normal user and as root.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Doug
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