cron question
Gerald Combs
gerald at ethereal.com
Fri Aug 30 14:52:24 CDT 2002
On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Jim Herrmann wrote:
> I just found out today, or at least I heard today, that Win/NT has the 'at'
> command. Can anyone confirm or deny this, and if it is true, does it work
> like cron? I know this is off the Linux topic, but it seemed like a logical
> follow on to the cron question.
>
> Thanks in advance for your pearls of wisdom.
Yes, it does:
C:>help at
The AT command schedules commands and programs to run on a computer at
a specified time and date. The Schedule service must be running to use
the AT command.
AT [\computername] [ [id] [/DELETE] | /DELETE [/YES]]
AT [\computername] time [/INTERACTIVE]
[ /EVERY:date[,...] | /NEXT:date[,...]] "command"
\computername Specifies a remote computer. Commands are scheduled on the
local computer if this parameter is omitted.
id Is an identification number assigned to a scheduled
command.
/delete Cancels a scheduled command. If id is omitted, all the
scheduled commands on the computer are canceled.
/yes Used with cancel all jobs command when no further
confirmation is desired.
time Specifies the time when command is to run.
/interactive Allows the job to interact with the desktop of the user
who is logged on at the time the job runs.
/every:date[,...] Runs the command on each specified day(s) of the week or
month. If date is omitted, the current day of the month
is assumed.
/next:date[,...] Runs the specified command on the next occurrence of the
day (for example, next Thursday). If date is omitted, the
current day of the month is assumed.
"command" Is the Windows NT command, or batch program to be run.
I've used it under NT to schedule MRTG runs.
> Peace,
> Jim
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