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- From: nweaver@ocf.berkeley.edu (Nicholas Weaver)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Alarm Clock?
- Date: 9 Nov 1992 23:26:51 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
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- In article <96838@netnews.upenn.edu> cjn@vaal.cpr.upenn.edu (Christopher Nagel) writes:
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- >
- >Should the following also work?:
- > at 0830 sndplay MySound.snd
-
- No. /usr/lib/atrun (which runs at) in the default crontab is only
- run every 15 minutes. You can bump it up if you are root, however, since at
- allows users to run processes wehn they aren't logged in, it is oftend
- disabled on multi-user sites (the line in the crontab is commented out).
- --
- Nicholas C. Weaver
- nweaver@ocf.berkeley.edu|weeniehead@ocf.berkeley.edu|nweaver@soda.berkeley.edu
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