Let the Sunshine In: Software support engineer in Tokyo

At Sun, we can logon to SunRay servers, which is Solaris10, but us mere mortal employees are not given 'crontab' privelege.

I have a task which I run everyday at 3PM and I have been running it in a terminal interactively every day. Today, I learned that I was very stupid... Even the 'man' page says 'at' can be an alternative to crontab.

$ man at 2>/dev/null | ggrep -B 4 -A 6 crontab
     Example 3: Self-rescheduling a Job

     To have a job reschedule itself,  at  can  be  invoked  from
     within  the  at-job.  For  example,  this "daily-processing"
     script named my.daily runs every day (although crontab is  a
     more appropriate vehicle for such work):

     # my.daily runs every day
     at now tomorrow < my.daily
     daily-processing

To run "daily-processing*" everyday, starting from today and now, do ...

$ cat > misc/my.daily
# my.daily runs every day
at now tomorrow < misc/my.daily
daily-processing_1.sh
daily-processing_2.sh
daily-processing_3.sh
^D
$ sh misc/my.daily