How To Install at on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install at on Fedora 34.
What is at
At and batch read commands from standard input or from a specified file. At allows you to specify that a command will be run at a particular time. Batch will execute commands when the system load levels drop to a particular level. Both commands use user’s shell. You should install the at package if you need a utility for time-oriented job control. Note need to be repeated at the same time every day/week, etc. you should use crontab instead.
We can use yum or dnf to install at on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install at.
Install at on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install at using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install at
Install at on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install at using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install at
How To Uninstall at on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the at package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove at
at Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/at.deny
/etc/pam.d/atd
/etc/sysconfig/atd
/usr/bin/at
/usr/bin/atq
/usr/bin/atrm
/usr/bin/batch
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/62
/usr/lib/.build-id/62/b478a9c11fa8aea2f8ce79e0c2dd774d77feaa
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a/8922c56ca4d5fe669fc91007851470c14a02fb
/usr/lib/systemd/system/atd.service
/usr/sbin/atd
/usr/sbin/atrun
/usr/share/doc/at
/usr/share/doc/at/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/at/README
/usr/share/doc/at/timespec
/usr/share/licenses/at
/usr/share/licenses/at/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/at/Copyright
/usr/share/man/man1/at.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/atq.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/atrm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/batch.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/at.allow.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/at.deny.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/atd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/atrun.8.gz
/var/spool/at
/var/spool/at/.SEQ
/var/spool/at/spool
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install at on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
