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From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Autologout of unused terminals
Message-ID: <578@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 4 Dec 88 08:41:14 GMT
References: <2682@sultra.UUCP> <826@starfish.Convergent.COM> <7043@chinet.chi.il.us> <8994@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >>Or you could use "at now" which will mail any output to you.
 >
 >This *IS* comp.unix.WIZARDS.  Please RTFM before posting.
 >
 >The manual page for at(1) states "\fBat now\fR will respond with the
 >error message too late."

So try "batch" (or "at -qb" - "batch" is just a dumb script wrapped
around "at -qb") instead, presuming you're on a system with an
S5R2-or-later-style "at".