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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: <198@svb.guug.de>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 01:35:37 GMT
- References: <1992Dec29.013313.6790@kodak.kodak.com> <16126@auspex-gw.auspex.com> <197@svb.guug.de>
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- In article <197@svb.guug.de> I wrote:
- >In article <16126@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
-
- > >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?
-
- > 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.
-
- I should set something straight: I didn't want to be nasty to Guy, it
- was mainly a misunderstanding about "job numbers". I mixed up SunOS < 5.0
- with SysV, what a sacrilegue(sp?) :-)
-
- And, of course, Guy is right, I checked it out on a SunOS 4.1.1.
-
- Sorry for the confusion!
-
- Regards,
-
- -svb.
-
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