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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: I gots no 'atrm' under ultrix
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Date: 21 Mar 89 18:57:54 GMT
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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..."