bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) (03/22/89)
Reply-to: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) I'm doing some processor-hogging, shell scripting, the front end of which is basically a call to rsh that tells one of the machines on our local cluster (a dozen ultrix-boxes) to do an 'at' so that sometime late that night my un-nice stuff will get done (it involves lots of tar'ring and compress'ing, and you wouldn't want that to happen when _you're_ logged-in, would you?). Anyway, while debugging this stuff, I discovered that although Ultrix V2.2 provides 'at' in its repertoire, it does not provide 'atrm' or 'atq'. I got around the atq-absence alright, but atrm looks like it will take some unfunny programming, along with superuser access (one can't just wipe a file from the at-queue, owner or not.) Okay, before I go reinventing the radial snowtire, does anyone have a decent hack for this? --Blair "...or a decent crowbar so I can pry all these bombing processes out of the queue..."