Re: Help w/ At Utility

LinuxNovice wrote:

I assumed since I was right there in the terminal that it would output
on the screen. I had it set to where I could see it, I wouldn't have
set it for a later date.

I wasn't expecting an output from the reboot, I expected the system to
reboot, and thats what it did.

And a normal reboot does some output. Your ls command did run: it's just its output didn't go to where you were expecting it.

Perhaps I'm lucky to have been to a Uni where the main college computer system had batch jobs as well as user terminal logins. The batch jobs obviously had no terminal for their output so they defaulted to the line printer, though the user could override this and stuff the output into a file instead. So for me, the default output of an at(1) job will not be expected to be a terminal, but some other place. My previous experience of Unix (at Uni) and use of cron tells me the sort of default Unix would use (as well as playing larn).

Thanks, I have been reading the at man pages. To try to get a grasp on
this.

As at(1) can't be certain that your terminal will still be there, it defaults (and only uses it, afaiaa) to another destination for output. I hope you have found it[1] now?

[1] Where at(1) sends the output of commands so run, and also the output of your ls command which you had previously lost.

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