Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 22:00:50 -0500 From: David Leimbach <dleimbac@earthlink.net> To: Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to use "at" Message-ID: <20010606220049.A2275@mutt.home.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20010607094221.007aaa50@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th>; from mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th on Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 09:42:21AM %2B0700 References: <3.0.6.32.20010607094221.007aaa50@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th>
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type "at 8:00am Sunday" hit return
enter in what you want to do at that time.
"cvsup -g -L 2..."
press ctrl-d when you are done and voila you have an at task scheduled
use atq to list them.
I would recommend you use cron instead... At is only good really for one
time jobs.. <it can be made to do stuff over and over again... cron is better
for this>
Anyway if you do
"crontab -e"
you will have the editor invoked from the EDITOR environment variable
<if you didn't change it it will be vi>
the format of a cron entry is easy its :
minute-of-hour[0-59] hour-of-day[0-23] day-of-month[1-31]
month-of-year[1-12] day-of-week[0-6]
wildcards are acceptable so if you want something to run every Sunday at
8:00 AM do the following:
0 8 * * 0 command-to-run
Dave
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 09:42:21AM +0700, Roger Merritt wrote:
> Back when FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE was due out, it occurred to me that it might
> be nice to have cvsup run on Sunday, after the RELEASE was committed. I
> don't want to put cvsup in my crontab, although it might be a Good Thing,
> and somebody had mentioned the program "at" in my hearing.
>
> Unfortunately, I can't figure out from the man page what command line to
> enter. Do I have to put "cvsup -g -L 2 ..." in a file and use 'at -f
> filename 8:00am Sunday'? Or is there some more intuitive way, like 'cvsup
> -g -L 2 ... at 8:00am Sunday'?
>
>
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