When I try to schedule something immediately with an 'at now' command it appears to queue up but can wait multiple minutes before actually executing. Is there something I have missed with FreeBSD's version of at?? I've used 'at now' with AIX, Linux, and OpenBSD and it immediately executes for those systems. I am running FreeBSD 7.0 stable. Thanks in advance.
Jeff Richards wrote:> When I try to schedule something immediately with an 'at now' command it appears to queue up but can wait multiple minutes before actually executing. > > Is there something I have missed with FreeBSD's version of at? I've used 'at now' with AIX, Linux, and OpenBSD and it immediately executes for those systems. > > I am running FreeBSD 7.0 stable.atrun is launched from crontab with a 5 minute granularity. So I think that at now can launch command with at most a 5 minutes delay. If this is a problem you can make atrun be launched every minute reconfiguring the crontab and you will wait at mosta one minute. This is explained in the at(1) man page. I don't know about other systems at setup. -- Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>