sVr2.2: what is /usr/lib/cron/queuedefs?

Mike Wescott wescott at ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM
Fri Jan 16 06:31:55 AEST 1987


In article <855 at hropus.UUCP> jrw at hropus.UUCP writes:
> 
> > (3) Can I create my own queues, using the flags from (2)?  How do I specify
> >     an arbitrary queue to "at"?
> 
> Just add a similar line to this file.

No need if you're willing to use the default values.
Which are 100j2n60w.

> cat-ing /usr/bin/batch reveals a shell script.  As it is probably considered
> source code, I cannot show it here ;-) but you specify different queues to at
> by saying "at -qA" where A is [a-z].  

Yeah. But watch out.  at -qc can cause cron to dump core in the atjobs spool
directory.  It seems that the "c" queue is a cron job and cron is not equipped
to properly execute "cron" jobs from at files.  Fix to be posted later.

	-Mike Wescott
	ncrcae!wescott



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