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- From: svb@svb.guug.de (Sebastian v. Bomhard)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: Dumb question about at/batch
- Message-ID: <197@svb.guug.de>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 02:15:25 GMT
- References: <1992Dec29.013313.6790@kodak.kodak.com> <16126@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
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- In article <16126@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
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- >This is a very unimportant question I've always's wondered about.
- >When using the at or batch commands, some seemingly random number
- >is assigned to the job. At first I thought it might be be the PID of
- >a process but apparently not. So, where does this number come from?
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- It's the i-number of the file in "/usr/spool/cron/atjobs" containing the
- commands to run.
-
- Are you sure? Then I'm very surprised that on my machines those "inode
- numbers" match exactly the time (GMT) in seconds when the job is to be
- started.
-
- What a coincidence :-)
-
-
- Regards,
-
- -svb.
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