Help using the "at" command in the terminal.

stedwick

If I'm ssh'ed into my computer and I want to make it automatically log me out in 5 minutes, shouldn't I be able to do



bash$ at now + 5 minutes

logout

^d

bash$



But it doesn't seem to work. Am I doing something wrong?



Thanks!



Philip

dacloo

Hi! I guess using CRON would do the job.

http://wiki.ittoolbox.com/index.php/..._Unix_cron_job

1337_5l4xx0r

I can't test this, but:



sleep 300 && logout &

domint

The at command is disable in OS X. If you bring up the man page for the at command it says:



"at, batch, atq, atrm are all disabled by default on Mac OS X. Each of

these commands depend on the execution of atrun(8) which has been dis-

abled due to power management concerns. Those who would like to use

these commands, must first (as root) re-enable atrun by running:



launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.atrun.plist"



So it seems you need to enable that service if you want to use the at command.



Hope this helps

stedwick

I'm not all that knowledgeable about the terminal, but nothing is working...



Even "sleep 3 && exit &" and "sleep 3 && logout &" don't work. Interestingly, when I do "sleep 3 && logout &" I get this



-bash: line 165: logout: not login shell: use `exit'



which is why I tried "sleep 3 && exit &" but still nothing works. Now, if I manually type "logout" or "exit" it logs me out no problem.



Any thoughts? I'm using Putty on Windows to reach my iMac at home, if that matters.



Oh, and "sleep 3 && echo hi &" does print hi, so sleep is working...but why isn't logout working?

lundy

Type atq while waiting to see what is pending.