On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 12:58 pm, Malcolm Kay wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 03:50 am, Jim Pazarena wrote: > > I want to run a job every 00:05 sunday morning. > > It is a script which run for a few minutes, then > > attempts to re-submit itself via at. > > at the end of the script, it has: > > echo "/usr/local/bin/script" | at 00:05 sunday > > this produces an error message: > > at:trying to travel back in time > > > > yes, cron could do it, but I would like to run it > > with at. on my old unix OS (SCO) I could enter > > at 00:05 next sunday, which would work. > > > > trying: at 00:05 + 7 days (on sunday at approx 00:10) > > gets queued for next Monday. > > 7 days from 0:10 on Sunday is 0:10 on the next Sunday -- then > look forward to 0:05 and that is on Monday. > > So: > at 00:05 + 7 days xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx at 00:05 +6 days > should work. > But you can also specify a particular date. > > Malcolm _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
