9 Dec
2020
9 Dec
'20
8 a.m.
On Tue, 8 Dec 2020, Michael Kjörling wrote:
If you have at but not cron, then implementing the
other doesn't seem
quite as straightforward. It would certainly still be possible, but it
would definitely give rise to the question of "wouldn't it be real nice
if I could set this task up to run on a recurring basis?" followed by
"wouldn't it make more sense for the run-stuff-at-some-time task to run
from the recurring-execution tool, than the other way around?".
I've never seen a *nix (since the 70s) that didn't have CRON (in one form
or another)... And on my FreeBSD system, "atrun" is called every 5
minutes, so /etc/crontab will need to be edited for finer granularity.
-- Dave