Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 19:17:56 PST From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/2747: at cannot be run in an atjob Message-ID: <97Feb17.191803pst.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 16 Feb 97 12:00:02 PST." <199702162000.MAA23111@freefall.freebsd.org>
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j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote: >People might consider this a feature. :-) So you can't defeat a >cron.deny entry with just an at.allow one. pbbht. I have a cron job which attempts to fetch today's Dilbert, but if it fails because the net is too congested it resubmits itself for an hour later as an at job. Do you think this is an illicit use of at? (note that if I tried to use cron for this purpose I'd have to create a flag file that I had succeeded, and have lots of extra invocations, and . . .) Bill
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