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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers cron ? automating a script Post 302152394 by reborg on Wednesday 19th of December 2007 06:22:14 PM
Old 12-19-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by porter
I've just checked on Solaris 9 on SPARC, it happily runs cron jobs using sh, ksh or csh. Not sure what you were implying.
I'm pretty this refers to the use of logic in the command in the crontab, or at least that is the only place I can see it making any difference. The job itself is executable or it is not, the interpreter makes no difference.
 

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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD

atrun

ATRUN(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						  ATRUN(8)

NAME

     atrun -- run jobs queued for later execution

SYNOPSIS

     atrun [-l load_avg] [-d]

DESCRIPTION

     atrun runs jobs queued by at(1).  Root's crontab(5) must contain the line:

     */10     *       *       *       *       root    /usr/libexec/atrun

     so that atrun(8) gets called every ten minutes.

     At every invocation, every job in lowercase queues whose starting time has passed is started.  A maximum of one batch job (denoted by upper-
     case queues) is started each time atrun is invoked.

OPTIONS

     -l load_avg
	     Specifies a limiting load factor, over which batch jobs should not be run, instead of the compiled-in value of 1.5.

     -d      Debug; print error messages to standard error instead of using syslog(3).

WARNINGS

     For atrun to work, you have to start up a cron(8) daemon.

FILES

     /var/at/spool  Directory containing output spool files
     /var/at/jobs   Directory containing job files

SEE ALSO

     at(1), crontab(1), syslog(3), crontab(5), cron(8)

AUTHORS

     Thomas Koenig <ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>

BUGS

     The functionality of atrun should be merged into cron(8).

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