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Old 12-19-2010
Cron jobs and at jobs

There are two jobs in Solaris , Cron and at jobs..

I know how to disable or enable cron jobs.

How can I enable at jobs and disable it.

Kindly help.

Rj
# 2  
Old 12-20-2010
atd is the daemon which is responsible for executing at jobs.

or you can manipulate /etc/at.deny to restrict a user from scheduling at jobs...
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Old 12-20-2010
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Originally Posted by thegeek
atd is the daemon which is responsible for executing at jobs.

or you can manipulate /etc/at.deny to restrict a user from scheduling at jobs...
On Solaris, at.deny and at.allow are under /usr/lib/cron
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