> @Jerry: > You might explain what it is you are attempting to do or why it is you need > to schedule a job down to the second. I am looking for a way to "sync" up running a command on 10 boxes at the same time. So I thought - hey in my program "I can send a command out that I want to run - this command is also another program of mine, get the current time, add 5 seconds to it, send this time HH:MM:SS to all 10 boxes and "schedule" an "at" command to run at that time. So all 10 boxes are running NTP and I thought it would be fine then if one box got it slightly faster than the last it would not matter as the "at" command would schedule the command to run all at the same time. So what mechanizim exists to run command down to the second? I'd rather not wait an entire 59 seconds to run the command. Thanks, Jerry