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Queuing at job from within php program?

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Fellow php'ers;

I'm having some difficulty getting this to work:  Based on a date/time 
selected by a user on a web form I would like to use the "at" command to 
schedule that task.

I've tried various php functions (system, exec, passthru) with the same 
results (return code 1 - which I cannot seem to get the error message 
from).

Here is a sample code snippet:

$cmd = "echo \"podcast -c $filename\" | at $hr:$mn $_ampm";
passthru("$cmd", $Retcode);
echo "$Retcode";

returns 1

Then I thought that perhaps the 'at' was not reading stdin in this case 
so I tried a temporary file approach:

$cmd =	"echo \"podcast -c $filename\"";
file_put_contents($filename.tmp, $cmd);
passthru("at $_hr:$_mn $_ampm < $filename.tmp", $_RetVal);
echo "$_RetVal";

This time it returned 2

I've got to be misunderstanding this function.  So, I thought if any of 
you skilled readers have had luck with doing something like this you may 
be willing to share.  However, any other suggestions greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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Queuing at job from within php program? bobm3@worthless.info - 2011-10-17 13:24 +0000
  Re: Queuing at job from within php program? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-10-17 11:20 -0400
    Re: Queuing at job from within php program? bobm3@worthless.info - 2011-10-17 15:51 +0000
      Re: Queuing at job from within php program? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-10-17 12:47 -0400
        Re: Queuing at job from within php program? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2011-10-17 13:27 -0500
          Re: Queuing at job from within php program? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-10-17 16:53 -0400
      Re: Queuing at job from within php program? "Álvaro G. Vicario" <alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX@demogracia.com.invalid> - 2011-10-18 09:51 +0200
  Re: Queuing at job from within php program? Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2011-10-18 03:43 +0000
  Re: Queuing at job from within php program? Erwin Moller <Since_humans_read_this_I_am_spammed_too_much@spamyourself.com> - 2011-10-18 10:12 +0200
    Re: Queuing at job from within php program? bobm3@worthless.info - 2011-10-19 21:40 -0400
      Re: Queuing at job from within php program? SOLVED! bobm3@worthless.info - 2011-10-20 21:21 -0400

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