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- From: eriks@lin.foa.se (Erik Svensson FOA2)
- Subject: Re: Multiple Alarm Clock sought -- try "cron"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.095341.1928@lin.foa.se>
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 09:53:41 GMT
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- Chris Johnson <chrisj@emx.cc.utexas.edu> writes:
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- > 0 17 * * 5 nobody -b echo -t 120 "Get out of the office! Drink some \
- > beers. Have a nice weekend."
- >
- >This displays an alert which makes sure we don't forget it's quitting
- >time on Friday afternoon. (Otherwise, we might work straight through the
- >weekend and not even notice. :-)
-
- Oh yes! And it's happened too. I'll be a-getting this!
-
- cheers
- --
- Erik Svensson
- Research Officer National Defense Research Establishment (FOA)
- Guided Weapons Division Stockholm, Sweden eriks@fenix.lin.foa.se
-
- "The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present"
- -- Hobbes
-