Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 14:27:13 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: Phelip Cray <phelipc@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: at command Message-ID: <20010302142713.B22426@itouchnz.itouch> In-Reply-To: <20010302005221.19284.qmail@web12407.mail.yahoo.com>; from phelipc@yahoo.com on Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 04:52:21PM -0800 References: <20010302005221.19284.qmail@web12407.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 04:52:21PM -0800, Phelip Cray wrote: > > Hello, > > I have been trying to use the at command > unsucessfully. > > at -V 2147 ls > > why won't this work? ( the time I typed it was 2145 ) Well, according to man page, this is wrong. at(1) will accept input from stdin, and the output will be emailed to you - and not generated on your current terminal. # at 2147 ls <Control-D> # works fine for me. Also, the atrun(8) which executes your script only runs every 5 minutes. -- Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about the remaining 3%? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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