rpcclient "at" command

[Greg Dickie]

Excellent! I'll take a look thanks for the quick (as usual) answer. 

Greg

On 24-Aug-99 Matt Chapman wrote:
> Greg Dickie wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>>   I'm trying to use the rpcclient "at now" to start a batch job but it seems
>>   to
>> end up in the at queue for this time tomorrow. Is the "now" processed in
>> rpcclient or does it get passed to NT?
> 
> It's processed in rpcclient. It asks the server for the current time,
> adds SOON_OFFSET seconds and schedules it then. See the at_soon function
> in rpcclient/cmd_atsvc.c.
> 
> You may need to increase SOON_OFFSET (defined just above at_soon). Then
> again, if you look at the code you'll see I'm not actually wrapping the
> seconds into the minutes properly, so that could be a problem too.
> 
> Do you have the reskit handy? I'd be very interested to know exactly how
> the "soon" utility works. I'll have to check that out sometime.
> 
>       Matt
> 
> 
> -- 
> Matthew "Austin" Chapman
> SysAdmin, Developer, Samba Team Member

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