Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 14:37:23 +0800 From: Igor Podlesny <poige@morning.ru> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Cc: "(Dave Chapeskie)" <dchapes@ddm.crosswinds.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[6]: perhaps one of phk's "intern" projects? Message-ID: <49346171598.20010727143723@morning.ru> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107262309180.8335-100000@beppo> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107262309180.8335-100000@beppo>
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> You're being somewhat obtuse. Really? it's probably because I don't multiply apple * milk wishing to receive gasoline in answer. > Complicated times such as 'teatime' and 'reboot' are explicitly allowed. It isn't a fact, what a pity... As I said before teatime is strictly defined in the manual... If you permanently reboots your system at "teatime" give us a call (911) > On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Igor Podlesny wrote: >> >> >> >> > Hmm. >> >> > 'at teatime' >> >> > seems the same as >> >> > 'at reboot' >> >> excerpt from man 1 at which can be seen at >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=at&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+4.3-RELEASE&format=html >> >> "...You may also specify midnight, noon, or teatime (4pm) and you can >> have..." >> >> So you mean you always reboot your system at 4pm? ;) >> >> >> > On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Igor Podlesny wrote: >> >> >> >> >> > On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Matthew Jacob wrote: >> >> >> It'd be nice if one could pass a time specification to at in the form >> >> >> of "next reboot". >> >> >> >> look... there is a big difference between time specification in >> >> at-program and suggested reboot keyword... I'd say it is like >> >> incompatible types... messing up time values and conditions like reboot >> >> which are certainly kept within time but AREN'T time values by itself. >> >> >> >> from man: >> >> "... >> >> At allows some moderately complex time specifications. >> >> ..." >> >> >> >> but it's always foreseen when precisely the action will have it place >> >> if the power is on and everything in system works ok. >> >> In case of reboot, this statement fails. >> >> >> >> So, I deem, it's not worth implementation within 'at' syntax. If >> >> somebody want such thing as 'do something on the next reboot', let's >> >> write another program (call it onreboot for e.g.) and try to use it. >> >> Although I bet, it isn't so necessary as it could seemed at first >> >> glance. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -matt >> >> >> >> > On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Matthew Emmerton replied: >> >> >> Why not just write a script for the command and stick it in >> >> >> /usr/local/etc/rc.d? >> >> >> >> >> >> -- Matt Emmerton >> >> >> >> > On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 03:45:58PM -0700, Matthew Jacob replied: >> >> >> Because I thought this might be of general utility. >> >> >> >> >> >> > Okay, try the attached patch. If this is really something that might be >> >> > generally usefully I can submit the patch as a PR. >> >> >> >> > It allows "at reboot" and "at reboot + 1 hour", etc. >> >> >> >> > It does it by sticking the job in the queue with the filename prefixed >> >> > with "_" (yeah, a bit ugly, it was the first thing that came to me) and >> >> > with the runtime based on the epoch instead of the current time. >> >> >> >> > Adding: >> >> > @reboot root /usr/libexec/atrun -b >> >> > to /etc/crontab causes atrun(8) to rename all of these jobs adding the >> >> > current time to the jobs runtime. >> >> >> >> >> >> > % echo "echo test" | at reboot >> >> > Job 19 will be executed using /bin/sh >> >> >> >> > % echo "echo test" | at reboot + 90 minutes >> >> > Job 20 will be executed using /bin/sh >> >> >> >> > % atq >> >> > Date Owner Queue Job# >> >> > REBOOT dchapes c 19 >> >> > REBOOT+01:30:00 dchapes c 20 >> >> >> >> what if a user rebooted the box, before this REBOOT+1:30:00 has been >> >> occured? will it be discarded or what? >> >> >> >> > $ date; /usr/libexec/atrun -b >> >> >> >> > % atq -v >> >> > Date Owner Queue Job# >> >> > 22:34:00 07/26/01 dchapes c 20 >> >> > 21:04:00 07/26/01 dchapes c(done) 19 >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Igor mailto:poige@morning.ru >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message >> >> >> >> -- >> Igor mailto:poige@morning.ru >> >> >> -- Igor mailto:poige@morning.ru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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