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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Crontab spawning multiple at processes Post 302225932 by Annihilannic on Sunday 17th of August 2008 08:43:16 PM
Old 08-17-2008
If you are calling these scripts from cron every minute, then it is no surprise that multiple at jobs are being scheduled... why do you need the crontab entries at all? Why don't you just schedule the programs directly through at?
 

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GNOME-SCHEDULE(1)					      General Commands Manual						 GNOME-SCHEDULE(1)

NAME
gnome-schedule - GNOME GUI for users' crontabs SYNOPSIS
gnome-schedule [option...] DESCRIPTION
gnome-schedule is a graphical user interface that leverages the power of cron or anacron and at to manage a user's crontab file and provide an easy way to schedule tasks. It supports recurrent tasks and tasks that happen only once in the future. The user interface translates cron strings into human-readible form for ease-of-use, but also has an expert option for those familiar with the cron file format. For documentation on interactive use of gnome-schedule, select the Help menu option while running the program. OPTIONS
gnome-schedule supports the standard GTK+ and GNOME command-line options, most of which need not be used except in special circumstances. To view a complete list, see gnome-schedule --help. BUGS
There are currently no known bugs. If you encounter one, please report it using reportbug gnome-schedule. SEE ALSO
cron(8), crontab(1), crontab(5), anacron(1), at(1) AUTHOR
This manual page was written by David Moreno Garza <damog@debian.org>, and revised by Christine Spang <christine@debian.org> for the Debian project (but may be used by others). November 22, 2007 GNOME-SCHEDULE(1)
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