RE: [cobalt-users] Planned execution of a script on a RAQ - AT not there ?

["Phil Beynon" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hello to all,
> I want to have a script launched at a very precise time one day.
> I have found a good solution on a RedHat machine (cronjob triggering the
> mails, sent with AT), but when trying to copy it to our RAQ 550 I
> found the
> AT command not to exist on it ?
> How can I have these emails sent at precisely the hour we need on
> that day ?
> thank you,

How about a PHP script run from CRON, checks the time, if it's nearly the
trigger time then it does a sleep until its exactly the right time then
sends the emails using some sort of remailer, otherwise it exits.
Should be accurate to a few milliseconds!

Phil

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