$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 atrun .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: d -literal */10 * * * * root /usr/libexec/atrun .Ed
p so that .Xr atrun 8 gets called every ten minutes.
p 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 l -tag -width indent t 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. t Fl d Debug; print error messages to standard error instead of using .Xr syslog 3 . .El .Sh WARNINGS For .Nm to work, you have to start up a .Xr cron 8 daemon. .Sh FILES l -tag -width /var/at/spool -compact t Pa /var/at/spool Directory containing output spool files t 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 ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de .Sh BUGS The functionality of .Nm should be merged into .Xr cron 8 .