From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 1 17:27:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1C1E37B719 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 17:27:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f221RER23408; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 14:27:14 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 14:27:13 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Phelip Cray Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: at command Message-ID: <20010302142713.B22426@itouchnz.itouch> References: <20010302005221.19284.qmail@web12407.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010302005221.19284.qmail@web12407.mail.yahoo.com>; from phelipc@yahoo.com on Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 04:52:21PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 # works fine for me. Also, the atrun(8) which executes your script only runs every 5 minutes. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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