[NCLUG] at command

Matt Taggart taggart at carmen.fc.hp.com
Thu Oct 24 13:43:09 MDT 2002


Joshua SS Miller writes...

> Anyone know in detail how the "at" command runs?  What I am looking for
> is how does it que a job?  It almost seems that is sets up a temporary
> cron job, but a friend of mine seem to think it creates a sleep loop?

It's a separate daemon, atd.

man at, man atd, and poke around /var/spool/cron.

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Matt Taggart
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