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09-11-2004, 05:33 PM
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Registered: Sep 2003
Distribution: RedHat9
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One More ? Regarding at
ive looked through man and the net. can the at command be used to schedule a job more then once? or is it a one time only? what if i want to schedule a job to run every hour for the next 24 hours? i couldnt see how to use at for this, but at seems like it should be the way to go.
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09-11-2004, 05:38 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2002
Location: England
Distribution: Used to use Mandrake/Mandriva
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Have you checked cron?
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09-11-2004, 05:38 PM
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Registered: Jul 2004
Distribution: Slackware
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A little knowledge of vi may help...
crontab -e
<press a to go to edit mode>
0 * * * * /path/to/your/program
<type [ESC],[:wq]>
Then your program will run every hour
man 5 crontab for more infos
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09-11-2004, 11:35 PM
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Registered: Sep 2003
Distribution: RedHat9
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cron will be what i use next, but im trying to understand all that the at command can do.
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09-12-2004, 04:36 AM
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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Outside Paris
Distribution: Solaris 11.4, Oracle Linux, Mint, Debian/WSL
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As proud and cedrik already suggested, cron is better suited for repetitive tasks.
If you anyway insist using at, nothing forbids to reschedule the next execution from within you at job.
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