On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Stan/Miriam Fisher wrote:
>I apologize if this is a dumb question, but what's a cron job?
cron - runs a job at a repeated time (every hour, for example)
A related utility is at (run a job once at a specific time)
try this (substitute <username> with the name you're logged in as)
at now + 5 minutes
mail -s "this is your at job at work" <username> </dev/null
control-d
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