Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:04:07 +0200 From: Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net> To: bsd24x7@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'at now' not working as expected Message-ID: <48E75BB7.2060206@madpilot.net> In-Reply-To: <884679.22561.qm@web110112.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <884679.22561.qm@web110112.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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Jeff Richards wrote: > When I try to schedule something immediately with an 'at now' command it appears to queue up but can wait multiple minutes before actually executing. > > Is there something I have missed with FreeBSD's version of at? I've used 'at now' with AIX, Linux, and OpenBSD and it immediately executes for those systems. > > I am running FreeBSD 7.0 stable. atrun is launched from crontab with a 5 minute granularity. So I think that at now can launch command with at most a 5 minutes delay. If this is a problem you can make atrun be launched every minute reconfiguring the crontab and you will wait at mosta one minute. This is explained in the at(1) man page. I don't know about other systems at setup. -- Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>
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