Chris Frederick writes:
> Anyone here know how to set up cron or at to email a reminder to a
> certain user or email address?  Like every day at 4:30pm and every
> Friday at 4:00pm?  And witch one is better, cron or at for this?

Usually, at is used to schedule a job once and cron is used for ongoing
jobs.  Looking at their respective man pages would help.

`man 5 crontab`

crontab -e

30 16 * * * echo "hello" | mail -s "4:30pm" joe at example.com
0 16 * * 5 echo "hi there" | mail -s "4:00pm friday" joe at example.com

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David Phillips <david at acz.org>
http://david.acz.org/


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