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To: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
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Subject: Re: bin/2747: at cannot be run in an atjob 
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Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 19:17:56 PST
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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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