atrun(8)

NAME

atrun - run jobs queued for later execution

SYNOPSIS

atrun [ -l load_avg ] [ -d ]

DESCRIPTION

atrun runs jobs queued by at(1) . Root's crontab file has to contain the line * * * * * /usr/lib/atrun so /usr/lib/atrun gets called once a minute.

At every invocation, every job in lowercase queues whose starting time has passed is started. A maximum of one batch jobs (denoted by uppercase queues) are started each time atrun is invoked.

OPTIONS

-l

Specifies a limiting load factor, over which batch jobs should not be run, instead of the compiled - in value of 1.5.

-d

Debug; print error messages to standard error instead of using syslog(3) .

WARNINGS

For atrun to work, you have to start up a cron daemon.

FILES

/var/spool/atspool/ /var/spool/atjobs/

SEE ALSO

at(1), cron(1), crontab(1), syslog(3)

BUGS

The functionality of atrun should be merged into cron(1) .