[geeks] Alarms, or why I hate computers

[Jochen Kunz]

On 2003.06.21 01:30 jodys at helluin.org wrote:

> So, I haven't needed my alarm for awhile, and it's power socket is now
> being used by the monitor. Well I need to wake up at a certain time
> tommorow. So, stupidly enough, I decided that I should use my
> workstation (an Indy running Irix 6.5.16m) to wake me up instead.
man at
man cron
man crontab
man audiopanel
man soundplayer

BTW: You can programm a SGI machine to switch itself on at a given time 
from Toolchest->System->Shut Down System.
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tsch|_,
           Jochen

Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz

p.s. You really didn't know at(1) and cron(1M)???