From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 8 17:48:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1369637B400 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 17:48:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F04028CA4; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 20:48:37 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 20:48:37 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: Morten Grunnet Buhl Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: man at [1] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020308204602.A67650-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Morten Grunnet Buhl wrote: > I think this is what youre looking after? man leave > Morten. > > On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, 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'"...? > > Thanks mucho, Actually, in looking up switches to use in tcsh's "set prompt" command, ("man tcsh") I found an answer in using "sched." But leave is very cool, possibly cooler, because it'll remind you and keep nagging you! =) P.S. Thank you for a civilized reply *smiles* -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message