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- Path: sparky!uunet!auspex-gw!guy
- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: Dumb question about at/batch
- Message-ID: <16126@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 21:55:01 GMT
- References: <1992Dec29.013313.6790@kodak.kodak.com>
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- Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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- >This is a very unimportant question I've always's wondered about.
- >When using the at or batch commands, some seemingly random number
- >is assigned to the job. At first I thought it might be be the PID of
- >a process but apparently not. So, where does this number come from?
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- It's the i-number of the file in "/usr/spool/cron/atjobs" containing the
- commands to run.
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