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| From | Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> |
|---|---|
| Organization | Deepwoods Software |
| Subject | Re: How do you use the "at" command? |
| References | <jfupll$nq0$1@dont-email.me> <qndbv8xim3.ln2@goaway.wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> |
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
| Message-ID | <A_2dnXPatJUZhb7SnZ2dnUVZ_vadnZ2d@posted.localnet> (permalink) |
| Date | 2012-01-27 15:35 -0600 |
At Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:23:54 -0800 Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:
>
> On 2012-01-27, Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> >
> > What I want to do is run the follow two commands
> > as root at a specific time:
> >
> > su root -c "touch /forcefsck; reboot"
>
> Is there a particular reason you do not wish to use cron? Because doing
> something at a specific time is easy with cron; I might use at when I
> want to say "five minutes from now" but I'd use cron for "11pm every
> other night".
cron only makes sense for a repeated event or activity.
shutdown itself allows for scheduled shutdowns and has options to force
fsck. The OP is just wanting to do it 'the (needlessly) hard way'.
Unless this is some sort of homework program for system admin 101.
>
> --keith
>
>
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How do you use the "at" command? Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-27 10:16 -0800
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@teksavvy.com> - 2012-01-27 13:43 -0500
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@teksavvy.com> - 2012-01-27 13:45 -0500
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2012-01-27 15:34 -0600
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-27 22:41 -0800
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Loki Harfagr <l0k1@thedarkdesign.free.fr.INVALID> - 2012-01-28 10:27 +0000
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2012-01-28 19:05 +0100
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2012-01-28 10:26 -0800
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Loki Harfagr <l0k1@thedarkdesign.free.fr.INVALID> - 2012-01-30 08:51 +0000
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2012-01-31 03:16 +0100
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2012-02-01 00:24 +0100
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2012-01-31 17:55 -0600
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2012-02-01 02:01 +0100
Re: How do you use the "at" command? "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2012-01-31 21:36 -0500
Re: How do you use the "at" command? "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2012-01-31 21:25 -0500
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2012-02-01 04:57 +0100
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Darren Salt <news@youmustbejoking.demon.cu.invalid> - 2012-01-31 23:46 +0000
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2012-02-01 02:12 +0100
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-01-27 19:10 +0000
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-27 11:17 -0800
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2012-01-27 15:34 -0600
Re: How do you use the "at" command? unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2012-01-27 20:26 +0000
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-27 22:51 -0800
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2012-01-27 12:23 -0800
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2012-01-27 15:35 -0600
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2012-01-27 17:22 -0800
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2012-01-27 20:25 -0600
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-27 22:49 -0800
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2012-01-28 07:16 +0000
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-27 23:57 -0800
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-27 22:49 -0800
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2012-01-28 06:07 -0600
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-28 13:32 -0800
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2012-01-28 22:28 -0600
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-28 22:50 -0800
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2012-01-28 23:35 -0800
Re: How do you use the "at" command? unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2012-01-29 18:46 +0000
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-29 12:03 -0800
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2012-01-29 15:38 -0600
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-29 16:58 -0800
Re: How do you use the "at" command? unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2012-01-30 01:36 +0000
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2012-01-30 03:07 +0100
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-29 19:21 -0800
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-29 19:17 -0800
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-29 11:48 -0800
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2012-01-29 07:35 -0600
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2012-01-29 20:40 +0100
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2012-02-03 13:25 -0800
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-27 22:45 -0800
Re: How do you use the "at" command? Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-27 22:42 -0800
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