1.\" $NetBSD: atrun.8,v 1.14 2014/03/18 18:20:38 riastradh Exp $ 2.\" $OpenBSD: atrun.8,v 1.4 1998/05/22 22:16:29 deraadt Exp $ 3.\" $FreeBSD: atrun.man,v 1.3 1997/02/22 14:20:55 peter Exp $ 4.Dd April 12, 1995 5.Dt ATRUN 8 6.Os 7.Sh NAME 8.Nm atrun 9.Nd run jobs queued for later execution 10.Sh SYNOPSIS 11.Nm 12.Op Fl l Ar load_avg 13.Op Fl d 14.Sh DESCRIPTION 15.Nm 16runs jobs queued by 17.Xr at 1 . 18Root's 19.Xr crontab 5 20must contain the line: 21.Bd -literal 22*/10 * * * * /usr/libexec/atrun 23.Ed 24.Pp 25so that 26.Nm 27gets called every ten minutes. 28.Pp 29At every invocation, every job in lowercase queues whose starting time 30has passed is started. 31A maximum of one batch job (denoted by uppercase queues) is started 32each time 33.Nm 34is invoked. 35.Sh OPTIONS 36.Bl -tag -width indent 37.It Fl l Ar load_avg 38Specifies a limiting load factor, over which batch jobs should 39not be run, instead of the compiled-in value of 1.5. 40.It Fl d 41Debug; print error messages to standard error instead of using 42.Xr syslog 3 . 43.El 44.Sh WARNINGS 45For 46.Nm 47to work, a 48.Xr cron 8 49daemon needs to be running. 50.Sh FILES 51.Bl -tag -width /var/at/spool -compact 52.It Pa /var/at/spool 53Directory containing output spool files 54.It Pa /var/at/jobs 55Directory containing job files 56.El 57.Sh SEE ALSO 58.Xr at 1 , 59.Xr crontab 1 , 60.Xr syslog 3 , 61.Xr crontab 5 , 62.Xr cron 8 63.Sh AUTHORS 64.An Thomas Koenig Aq Mt ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de 65.Sh BUGS 66The functionality of 67.Nm 68should be merged into 69.Xr cron 8 . 70