Subject: Re: timer command?
Date: Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 10:39:07PM +1000
In reply to:Steve Kowalik
Quoting Steve Kowalik([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 07:01:59AM -0400, Jeff Maxson uttered:
> >
> > what would be a command (or script) which would execute a given command
> > after a certain amount of time? for example I want to run something like
> >
> > ./offin 60 poff
> >
> > where offin is a script/command, 60 is the # of minutes before "poff" is
> > executed.
> >
> at now + 1 hour
> /usr/bin/poff
> ^D
>
> at rocks
On Potato it does. On Woody 'atd' isn't starting, no var/run/atd.pid
file. So forget 'at' on Woody presently.
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