On 4/17/06, sfantar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am having some problems with the at command. I do not receive any
> confirmation mail after setting my at command properly with its options.
> Furthermore, as it is written in the man page concerning at, I have
> reinstalled sendmail in order to prevent from having a problem with
> delivery messages. No results.
> Consequently, I do not know if my job did well or not.
>From the man page ("man at"):
"The user will be mailed standard error and standard output from
his commands, if any."
Is your job supposed to produce any output? If not, you won't receive
any mail. If you really want a confirmation mail, you can always call
"date" at the end of the job, or just echo the name of the job.
> Here is the output of the command atq :
> What do a and = mean exactly?
Again, from the man page:
" -q queue
uses the specified queue. A queue designation consists of a
single letter; valid queue designations range from a to z. and
A to Z. The a queue is the default for at and the b queue for
batch. Queues with higher letters run with increased niceness.
The special queue "=" is reserved for jobs which are currently
running."
--
Michael A. Marsh
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh
http://mamarsh.blogspot.com
