modifying jobs in the at queue?
Matt Price
matt.price-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Wed Aug 13 01:48:37 UTC 2008
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 14:42 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 02:36:54PM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
> > anyone know if there's an interface that lets you modify jobs in the at
> > queue? i'd really like to have, say, a littke cureses-based editor that
> > lists jobs & lets you edit the command and the time -- so it'd be like
> > editing crontab, but for non-repeating jobs.
> >
> > i'm asking because i've been using a little script to automate the
> > sending of evamils -- i'm using it a lot, but finding sometimes i want
> > to go back and modify what i wrote...
>
> You might be able to just find the files for the job in /var and edit
> them there. Probably not recommended, but still likely to work.
>
ahh. found them in /var/spool/cron/atjobs . File format looks quite
straightforward. not as nice as a curses-based interface, but pretty
good for all that. Thanks lennart!
m
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Matt Price
matt.price-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
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