From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 3 23:26:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA19461 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 23:26:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA19456 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 23:26:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id BAA00995; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 01:26:16 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 01:26:15 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Studded , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Anyone using 'at' ? Message-ID: <19981004012615.A887@emsphone.com> References: <36170915.CBBD5189@dal.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.3i In-Reply-To: <36170915.CBBD5189@dal.net>; from "Studded" on Sat Oct 3 22:35:17 GMT 1998 X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Oct 03), Studded said: > I got interested in using the 'at' utility to schedule some work and > found out that it doesn't seem to be matching the behavior described > in the man pages. I am loathe to call this a bug because I'm totally > unfamiliar 'at' and it might be pilot error. > > To start with, if I type in a very simple command like: > > at 22:29 command > > it never returns, and the job never executes. Doing anything more > exciting (like is described in the man page) such as: Check the manpage. At expects the script to be supplied from stdin (or a filename specified by -f). > at now + 5 seconds command > > I get "at: incomplete time" The manpage doesn't list a seconds parameter. Since the at queue is processed at 5-minute intervals from /etc/crontab, per-second resolution isn't necessary. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message