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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: a better cron?
Date: 1 May 1994 18:36:16 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
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In article <1994Apr30.000903.24496@pegasus.com>,
Richard Foulk <richard@pegasus.com> wrote:
>Aloha,  is there a better cron around somewhere that might be adapted
>to xBSD?  I'm very used to the cron that has atrun built into it.

No version of cron that I'm aware of has atrun built into it.  

>The `at' granularity of 10 minutes makes it much less useful.  Even my
>old ISC unix has 1 minute granularity.

That's the function of at, not of cron.


Nate

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