RE: "AT" scheduler

I've gotten similarly odd performance from AT. I find that it, among other issues, doesn't do well if there are gaps in the list of job ids. For instance, if jobs are 1,2,3,19,20,21 (as a result of deleting and re-adding jobs) then jobs 1,2,and 3 run but not the others. Restarting the Schedule service seems to prompt a renumbering that seems to solve that problem. I've yet to see any documentation that explains the odd behavior.

David

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Patrice J
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 11:22 AM
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If you are running on NT, I strongly recommend you obtain crontab for Windows.

AT will run 99.99% of the time... but not 100% of the time. On one of the servers here AT failed to run the very night that we were changing the time last Fall, very suspicious in my opinion.

In any case for AT just do:

at hh24:mm /every:M,T,W,Th,F,S,Su cmd /c pointer_to_my_script_or_program

e.g.
at 22:00 /every:M,T,W,Th,F cmd /c c:\pat\coldbackup.cmd

That will create an entry:
Added a new job with Job ID = <some number>

To see the listing, just type AT [enter]

To remove an entry,

at ID_num /delete
e.g.
at 12 /delete

Don't try to keep your jobs listing in any particular order, NT shuffles them around sometimes when you do maintenance on the server or when you reboot.

For AT jobs to run, of course the Scheduler service must be running. The service has a couple of different names, depending on which service pack you installed on your server.

Regards,

Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle DBA)
Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Fisheries and Oceans Canada

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>
> Can anyone tell me how to schedule a batch job to run every 5 minutes
> using
> the "AT" scheduler?
>
> Thanks!
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