at job executing before it's time?

[Phyur]

Greetings,

I have a job that I need to be executed at a later date relative to the execution time of another script. At the end of the 1st script I say &quot;at now + 3 hours < script > script.log&quot; and it seems as if at least one of the commands in the 2nd script is being executed immediately.

Can anybody shed some light on this situation?

 

[bi]

This isn't going to answer your question, but it may be a work around: in your first script, why not issue a sleep command for 3 hours and then kick off the second script? For example:

<end of actions in the first script, as of now>
sleep 10800
/usr/local/bin/secondscript.sh