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(Please feel free to answer questions posted by others!)
venkat ( 28 Dec 2015, 10:50)
How to check the cancelled Scheduled jobs in linux Server. Can u tell me
the cmd pls.
Koong ( 30 May 2013, 04:11)
Thank you.
^_^
Prescilla ( 03 Feb 2013, 05:58)
I am a newbie and would like to know where is the mail sent when -m is
used? Or how or where do I check that mail?
Raf ( 23 Jan 2013, 17:44)
Good command but...
is there a way to know if a job is already scheduled? It is possible with
at? or is it possible with another command? I need to run job only once (so
i don't want to use cron). Thanks!
Harshit ( 21 Dec 2012, 17:41)
Scheduling job by at , but job not getting execute.
if i run job manully it runs fine gives output.
but using at nothing is moving, job is also presented on atq.
Bob Rankin ( 16 Mar 2012, 09:15)
@Sruthi - When cron executes a command, the output is mailed to the owner
of the crontab. Just login as that user and run the mail command to see
it.
Sruthi ( 16 Mar 2012, 07:08)
Is there a way that crontab sends an email when the task is finished. I am
using crontab to schedule my task. Once the job is completely done, I like
to get the response as a mail. I am using something like below.
* * * * * test.sh >> /test.out 2>&1
Please guide how to send the mail and where to check the mail in case I
send the mail to local user.
Thanks
Igor ( 09 Dec 2011, 13:28)
@Rick (9 Sept. 2010)
Obviously it's been a while since your comment. I think your woes might
have something do to with this (copy/paste from at's manpage):
-q queue
uses the specified queue. A queue designation consists of a
single letter; valid queue designations range from a to z. and
A to Z. The a queue is the default for at and the b queue for
batch. Queues with higher letters run with increased niceness.
The special queue "=" is reserved for jobs which are currently
running.
Kuldeep Thakur ( 06 Dec 2011, 02:55)
Hi,
I am using the same command at 8:15am Dec 16
echo "Remember to call Ruth about the Amalgamated Contract!"
^D
but instead of giving me the result it's shows me you have a mail in
/var/spool/mail/kthakur
then i tried to go to that path i haven't permission for that.
please suggest!
Diandra ( 24 Oct 2011, 08:49)
Whoa, thgnis just got a whole lot easier.
JUICE ( 21 Jul 2011, 21:11)
How would the at command find me in a specific point in time if it doesnt
know my current terminal? what can be the command to use that "at" would
determine my location and run a specific txt file.?
scottathena ( 06 Jun 2011, 07:15)
Brad,
I don't know if this has been solved, but I believe there is a space
between the 'r' and 'job number', so I would try something like "at -r 1"
Brad ( 21 Feb 2011, 20:53)
Great material -- a brilliant self-study course. One question about this
page: I tried to cancel a task using at -r1 but I keep getting an error:
'at invalid option -- r'. I know the task is scheduled because it appears
in at -l. Any suggestions? I'm using Linux Mint 9. Thanks.
dheeraj ( 02 Dec 2010, 13:03)
this is really very cool command . i will definately try it
Thanks
and keep uploading more commands !
rick ( 09 Sep 2010, 17:35)
Ok, thanks Bob.
Bob Rankin ( 09 Sep 2010, 15:48)
@Rick - I can't explain the behavior, but maybe you could use the renice
command to change the nice value of the process.
Rick ( 09 Sep 2010, 14:53)
I used "at" to schedule some (single threaded) timing runs (using
/usr/bin/time) of a computationally intensive, I/O unintensive (as in just
2-3 pages of text output) program I'm working on last night. (OS is Ubuntu
7.10) The output this morning showed that each run of the program had taken
~2-3x as long to run as normal, i.e., the reported user time is 2-3x as
large. I just looked at a small subset of the test, and, yep, the program
does run more slowly under at. Just checked using "crontab" to do the same
thing and did not see any slowdown from running interactively. The only
hint I saw is that with "at" the program is niced to 2 while with crontab
the program runs at a nice of 0. Sure enough, when I run interactively with
a nice value of 2 I see the same slow down -- which puzzles me because
while running with a nice of 2, top reports that I am getting 100% of a
CPU. BTW, the runs are long enough to be significant -- ~105 seconds of CPU
time, ~300 sec under "at". So my 2 questions are: 1) how can I tell "at"
not to nice my job? 2) why would running with a nice of 2 when there's no
load on the machine slow my job down so? Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Bob Rankin ( 18 Jun 2010, 05:47)
@Felipe - the at command has a -m flag to send mail when done.
Felipe ( 15 Jun 2010, 08:11)
Hi,
Is there a way that the "at" sends me an email when the task has finished?
Thanks.
JensCarsten ( 31 May 2010, 16:40)
What linux distro are you using?
In Debian, it's 'at -d' to delete a job from the queue.
eddiehaskell ( 30 Apr 2010, 21:36)
You may wish to explain that 'at' is for one time, 'cron' is for recurring
events.
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