From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 18 20:40:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.san.rr.com (smtp2.san.rr.com [24.25.195.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AF0437B400 for ; Sat, 18 May 2002 20:40:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 24-161-164-113.san.rr.com (24-161-164-113.san.rr.com [24.161.164.113]) by smtp2.san.rr.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g4J3dtA04638 for ; Sat, 18 May 2002 20:40:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 20:39:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: root@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com To: FreeBSD Questions LIST Subject: rc.conf or loader.conf, at now + 30 minutes Message-ID: <20020518203532.Q710-100000@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com> 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 I want to put the following interactive command into a file that loads at bootup: prompt$ at now + 30 minutes echo "Uptime is 30 minutes" | wall ^D Question 1- Is there a way to condense this into one command line? Question 2- Can that condensed line go in /etc/rc.conf or similar? Question 3- Will "wall" (write all) write to ttys waiting for a login: ? Thanks 1- Thanks bigtime. Thanks 2- No, really; I mean it! :) Thanks 3- There is no Thanks 3. -- 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