System Administration Guide, Volume 2

Example--Removing at Jobs

In the following example, a user wants to remove an at job that was scheduled to execute at 4 am on July 17th. First, the user displays the at queue to locate the job identification number. Next, the user removes this job from the at queue. Finally, the user verifies that this job has been removed from the queue.


$ at -l
897543900.a	Wed Jul 14 23:45:00 1999
897355800.a	Mon Jul 12 19:30:00 1999
897732000.a	Sat Jul 17 04:00:00 1999
$ at -r 897732000.a
$ at -l 897732000.a
at: 858142000.a: No such file or directory