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Old 11-21-2005
at: can't create a job for you

Dear All,

When I run several jobs scheduling with at commands, most of the jobs run but few of them come out with this message:at: can't create a job for you. I run on a syntax like at -q o now <<-!!
cmd
!!

what I could do to prevent it.

thanks.
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Old 11-22-2005
Need an example of an instance that works. Then an example of an instance that doesn't. Otherwise, the question is almost impossible to answer.
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