Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!ames!killer!pollux!dalsqnt!rpp386!jfh 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 Lines: 25 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 -- John F. Haugh II +-Cat of the Week:--------------_ /|- VoiceNet: (214) 250-3311 Data: -6272 |Aren't you absolutely sick and \'o.O' InterNet: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US |tired of looking at these damn =(___)= UucpNet :!killer!rpp386!jfh +things in everybody's .sig?-------U---