Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 17:25:47 +1030 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: specifying a day for at command Message-ID: <200601031725.47599.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <200601031258.02412.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> References: <43B960E3.9050408@ccstores.com> <200601031258.02412.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
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On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 12:58 pm, Malcolm Kay wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 03:50 am, Jim Pazarena wrote: > > I want to run a job every 00:05 sunday morning. > > It is a script which run for a few minutes, then > > attempts to re-submit itself via at. > > at the end of the script, it has: > > echo "/usr/local/bin/script" | at 00:05 sunday > > this produces an error message: > > at:trying to travel back in time > > > > yes, cron could do it, but I would like to run it > > with at. on my old unix OS (SCO) I could enter > > at 00:05 next sunday, which would work. > > > > trying: at 00:05 + 7 days (on sunday at approx 00:10) > > gets queued for next Monday. > > 7 days from 0:10 on Sunday is 0:10 on the next Sunday -- then > look forward to 0:05 and that is on Monday. > > So: > at 00:05 + 7 days xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx at 00:05 +6 days > should work. > But you can also specify a particular date. > > Malcolm
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