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Slitaz equivalent of 'at' for once-off command scheduling.
  • philstixphilstix December 2010
    I'm trying to find a way of doing once-off command scheduling in Slitaz.

    In other linux distros I use the 'at' command, but it isn't installed in Slitaz or in the package manager - although, strangely, the manual for 'at' is installed.

    What do other Slitaz users do for scheduling jobs they only want run once?
  • erniaernia December 2010
    should be packaged now:
    http://hg.slitaz.org/wok/rev/cd8b7d34a9a8
    try tazpkg recharge and tazpkg get-install at
  • philstixphilstix December 2010
    @ernia: Thanks. It's not in the packages yet:
    "Unable to find: at in the mirrored packages list."
    "Unable to find: get-at in the mirrored packages list."
    At least I know it's going to be in Slitaz - I've come to rely on 'at' to get things done :-)
    I'll try again later.
  • erniaernia December 2010
    did you
    tazpkg recharge
    ? i already have at
    root@cooking:~# tazpkg get-install at

    Connecting to mirror.slitaz.org (94.23.60.116:80)
    at-3.1.12.tazpkg 100% |*******************************| 24064 00:00:00 ETA

    Installation of : at-3.1.12
    ================================================================================
    Copying at-3.1.12... [ OK ]
    Extracting at-3.1.12... [ OK ]
    Extracting the pseudo fs... (lzma) [ OK ]
    Installing at... [ OK ]
    Removing all tmp files... [ OK ]
    ================================================================================
    at (3.1.12) is installed.
  • philstixphilstix December 2010
    Yes I did already recharge - three times - and it says there are no new packages. But there is something odd going on ... the gui package manager keeps telling me there are 6 packages to update, and after I try updating the package manager says 0 packages to update... until I do a recharge and then it says 6 to update again - the same packages each time.

    I also downloaded the 'at' package manually and tried to do install it with 'tazpkg install --force' but tazpkg reports it can't find the package.

    So maybe there's something wrong with my package manager.
  • erniaernia December 2010
    if i'm not wrong tazpkg has been upgraded, try tazpkg get-install tazpkg (eventually --forced) from a terminal and retry.
    i don't use the gui package manager
  • philstixphilstix December 2010
    Thanks for your help, but it didn't make any difference. My tazpkg was already on version 3.4, but I reinstalled it anyway. I'm still getting the same problem - "0 new packages" and "Unable to find at". I'm starting to think my tazpkg installation is broken somehow. Is it possible my tazpkg is going to a mirror that hasn't been updated yet?
  • erniaernia December 2010
    sorry, i thought you were on cooking, the new package is for cooking, you will never see it in stable repository.
    download the package and install it with
    tazpkg install at-3.1.12.tazpkg
    and check if it works well.
    if it does not work well you need to install tazwok and rebuild the package against 3.0 toolchain using the cooking receipt
  • philstixphilstix December 2010
    According to the grub menu I am on cooking... is the tazpkg version for cooking later than 3.4? Regardless, I get the same errors with at-3.1.12.tazpkg.
  • erniaernia December 2010
    fabio@cooking:~$ tazpkg search tazpkg

    Search result for: tazpkg

    Installed packages
    ================================================================================
    tazpkg 4.1.3 base-system.
    ================================================================================
    1 installed package(s) found for : tazpkg

    Available packages name-version
    ================================================================================
    tazpkg-4.1.3
    tazpkg-web-1.1
    ================================================================================
    2 available package(s) found for : tazpkg

    is tazpkg pointed to cooking mirrors:
    root@cooking:~# cat /var/lib/tazpkg/mirror
    http://mirror.slitaz.org/packages/cooking/
    http://download.tuxfamily.org/slitaz/packages/cooking/
    http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/slitaz/packages/cooking/
    ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/slitaz/packages/cooking/
    http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/slitaz/packages/cooking/
    ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/slitaz/packages/cooking/
    http://mirror.lupaworld.com/slitaz/packages/cooking/
    http://slitaz.c3sl.ufpr.br/packages/cooking/
    ftp://slitaz.c3sl.ufpr.br/slitaz/packages/cooking/
    http://slitaz.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/slitaz/packages/cooking/
    ftp://ftp.pina.si/slitaz/packages/cooking/
    http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/slitaz/packages/cooking/
    http://ftp.vim.org/ftp/os/Linux/distr/slitaz/packages/cooking/

    read this http://forum.slitaz.org/index.php/discussion/2187/how-to-upgrade-to-slitaz-cooking/#Item_4
    if you have not done a lot of work maybe you could restart from scratch, your system seems to be a little messed up
  • erniaernia December 2010
    run tazpkg as root, i did install at in stable without problems
  • philstixphilstix December 2010
    Thanks again. Yes I've been running tazpkg as root. And I agree it seems my Slitaz installation is messed up somehow. I'm new to Slitaz, and I haven't done much with it yet - just installed a few bits and pieces with the gui package manager. The first update I did installed the 'cooking' menu item in grub, but apparently it didn't set it up properly. I think I'll do a complete reinstall and see what happens.

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