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Re: Trying to figure out at, atrun, atd, and friends.



Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> writes:

> More to the point, there is not indication of how to write a "job" entry,
> nor is there any clear indication of how at interfaces with cron, although
> there is every indication that the two are intimately connected.

They used to be.  As I recall, in the past, at tasks were handled by a
regularly scheduled (every minute?) cron task.  That's no longer the
case.  There's now an at daemon, atd, that handles at tasks.

-- 
Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
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