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From: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Autologout of unused terminals
Summary: Don't use "at now".  Do use nohup.
Message-ID: <8994@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 2 Dec 88 02:08:13 GMT
References: <2682@sultra.UUCP> <826@starfish.Convergent.COM> <7043@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum)
Organization: Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers
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In article <7043@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>Or you could use "at now" which will mail any output to you.
>Neither is very useful if there is any chance that you will be prompted
>for new media.

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."

Script is typescript, started Thu Dec  1 20:07:20 1988
Subscript out of range.
1 - rpp386-> at now
at: too late
2 - rpp386-> exit
3 - rpp386-> logout
Not a terminal: Not a character device
John's Words of Wisdumb -
Take everything in stride.  Trample anyone who gets in your way.
Script done Thu Dec  1 20:07:31 1988
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