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Article #3272Re: Alarm Clock?
From: Nicholas Weaver
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 23:26
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 23:26
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In article <96838@netnews.upenn.edu> cjn@vaal.cpr.upenn.edu (Christopher Nagel) writes:
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>Should the following also work?:
> at 0830 sndplay MySound.snd
No. /usr/lib/atrun (which runs at) in the default crontab is only
run every 15 minutes. You can bump it up if you are root, however, since at
allows users to run processes wehn they aren't logged in, it is oftend
disabled on multi-user sites (the line in the crontab is commented out).
--
Nicholas C. Weaver
nweaver@ocf.berkeley.edu|weeniehead@ocf.berkeley.edu|nweaver@soda.berkeley.edu
It is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, .signifying nothing.
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