Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 21:23:22 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>, FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: man at Message-ID: <20020308022322.37EBCBB26@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20020307180719.A510-100000@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com> References: <20020307180719.A510-100000@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com>
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On Thursday 07 March 2002 09:16 pm, Peter Leftwich wrote:
| Sorry for a tremendously simple question, but I'm pretty sure the manpages
| don't cover this: Is it possible to use "at" or "cron[tab]" for a "a time X
| minutes from now" rather than "HH:MM specific time?" For example, can you
| put in your ~/.login file something like "at +15mins echo 'time to go'"...?
Don't speculate about what the man pages cover, do "man at" and read them.
They do.
It's a lot faster than sending mail to the list and it bothers far fewer
people.
(If you *really* can't find it, I'll give you this much of a hint:
read starting at line 40, column 70 of the man page.)
|
| Thanks mucho,
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