From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 7 18:15:36 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 B666C37B419 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 18:15:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from 66-75-1-142.san.rr.com (66-75-1-142.san.rr.com [66.75.1.142]) by smtp2.san.rr.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g282FXK03137; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 18:15:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 18:16:01 -0800 (PST) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: root@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: man at Message-ID: <20020307180719.A510-100000@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 Sorry for a tremendously simple question, but I'm pretty sure the manpages don't cover this: Is it possible to use "at" or "cron[tab]" for a "a time X minutes from now" rather than "HH:MM specific time?" For example, can you put in your ~/.login file something like "at +15mins echo 'time to go'"...? Thanks mucho, -- 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