Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 12:58:02 +1030 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: specifying a day for at command Message-ID: <200601031258.02412.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <43B960E3.9050408@ccstores.com> References: <43B960E3.9050408@ccstores.com>
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On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 03:50 am, Jim Pazarena wrote: > I want to run a job every 00:05 sunday morning. > It is a script which run for a few minutes, then > attempts to re-submit itself via at. > at the end of the script, it has: > echo "/usr/local/bin/script" | at 00:05 sunday > this produces an error message: > at:trying to travel back in time > > yes, cron could do it, but I would like to run it > with at. on my old unix OS (SCO) I could enter > at 00:05 next sunday, which would work. > > trying: at 00:05 + 7 days (on sunday at approx 00:10) > gets queued for next Monday. > 7 days from 0:10 on Sunday is 0:10 on the next Sunday -- then look forward to 0:05 and that is on Monday. So: at 00:05 + 7 days should work. But you can also specify a particular date. Malcolm
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