.\" $NetBSD: atrun.8,v 1.14 2014/03/18 18:20:38 riastradh Exp $ .\" $OpenBSD: atrun.8,v 1.4 1998/05/22 22:16:29 deraadt Exp $ .\" $FreeBSD: atrun.man,v 1.3 1997/02/22 14:20:55 peter Exp $ .Dd April 12, 1995 .Dt ATRUN 8 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm atrun .Nd run jobs queued for later execution .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Op Fl l Ar load_avg .Op Fl d .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm runs jobs queued by .Xr at 1 . Root's .Xr crontab 5 must contain the line: .Bd -literal */10 * * * * /usr/libexec/atrun .Ed .Pp so that .Nm gets called every ten minutes. .Pp At every invocation, every job in lowercase queues whose starting time has passed is started. A maximum of one batch job (denoted by uppercase queues) is started each time .Nm is invoked. .Sh OPTIONS .Bl -tag -width indent .It Fl l Ar load_avg Specifies a limiting load factor, over which batch jobs should not be run, instead of the compiled-in value of 1.5. .It Fl d Debug; print error messages to standard error instead of using .Xr syslog 3 . .El .Sh WARNINGS For .Nm to work, a .Xr cron 8 daemon needs to be running. .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width /var/at/spool -compact .It Pa /var/at/spool Directory containing output spool files .It Pa /var/at/jobs Directory containing job files .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr at 1 , .Xr crontab 1 , .Xr syslog 3 , .Xr crontab 5 , .Xr cron 8 .Sh AUTHORS .An Thomas Koenig Aq Mt ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de .Sh BUGS The functionality of .Nm should be merged into .Xr cron 8 . |