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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: cron,at
- Message-ID: <os2qlgo@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 20:20:59 GMT
- References: <32149@adm.brl.mil>
- Sender: news@zuni.esd.sgi.com (Net News)
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In <32149@adm.brl.mil> beyer@bflsgu.fl.bs.dlr.de (R. Beyer) writes:
- | on an Indigo running IRIX 4.0.1 the following script runs as expected
- | if submitted to 'cron'. However, if it is submitted to 'at' an error is
- | returned.
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- at only runs /bin/sh scripts...
-
- This is alluded to in the man page, although not explictly stated.
-
- However the message issued when you request an at job, and have
- /bin/csh as your login shell is pretty clear:
- warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh
- --
- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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