[H-GEN] Output from your job 160 (fwd)

Martin Pool mbp at wistful.humbug.org.au
Sat Oct 10 20:40:32 EDT 1998


On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 10:03:13AM +1000, The Fuzzy One wrote:
> 
> Some of you will have seen my cdloop/cdjuke[1] script, posted to
> code-review at azure.  It does a few slightly funky things with a cd such as
> handling playlists, and doing randomisation of tracks.
> 
> Now... if I run it on the command-line... everything works fine...
> however, if I put it in an "at" command, to form part of my alarm clock,
> nothing happens to the cd.  Instead, I get a rude message emailed to
> me[2].
> 
> Does anyone know why this would be the case for an awk script?  I don't
> know what either "bozo" or "wait_for" are referring to.  I'm running
> mawk[3], on a debianised linux system[4].

Try setting up the job, then type

  $ at -c ${JOBNUMBER}

which will show you what atd is going to execute.  Perhaps that'll
help.

-- 
Martin Pool




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