topic one time schedule job in Operating System - Linux

one time schedule job

ust3 — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:15:11 GMT

I want to add a schedule job that only run one time ( eg. 1st Sep 2007 , 09:00am) , I know crontab can't do that , can advise how to set it ? thx

Re: one time schedule job

Ivan Ferreira — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:21:32 GMT

Use the "at" command. See man at for date format specification. See also atq and atrm.

Re: one time schedule job

ust3 — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:14:56 GMT

thx reply,

I hv read the man page
at [-V] [-q queue] [-f file] [-mldbv] TIME

, please advise how to set the time , for example , if 1st Sep 2007 , 09:00am , is it 200709010900 how to set it ? thx

Re: one time schedule job

Stuart Browne — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:37:22 GMT

Yeah, that's right.

So:

at -t 200709010900

From there, you type the commands you want to do, otherwise just < the command list into at.