[geeks] Alarms, or why I hate computers

Brian Dunbar Brian.Dunbar at plexus.com
Mon Jun 23 08:57:32 CDT 2003


jodys at helluin.org [mailto:jodys at helluin.org] at Sunday, June 22, 2003 10:47
PM said;

>No, I've used cron(1M) a bunch and, as detailed in the message I was 
>unsuccessful with at(1). Not that I couldn't have made these work, 
>just that I was time constrained due to the lateness and didn't get 
>to these fully. Since I use this software so rarely I generally
>forget the syntax, special caveats, which kind of chicken I'm
>supposed to sacrifice, etc.  

>Jody

I'd lay some of the 'scope creep' blame on the late hour.  Everyone has has
their 'fum-ducker' moments, usually when it's late/early and you're running
short on sleep.

Brian



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