in reply to Command at a specific Date

Since you are using '/sbin/iptables', I'm assuming that you are on *nix. Wouldn't it be easier to use cron? See 'man crontab' and 'man 5 crontab'.

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Re^2: Command at a specific Date
by salva (Canon) on Dec 12, 2005 at 13:12 UTC
    or at if you only want to execute the command once.