1.\" $NetBSD: atrun.8,v 1.8 1998/06/27 21:15:42 christos 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 atrun 12.Op Fl l Ar load_avg 13.Op Fl d 14.Sh DESCRIPTION 15.Nm Atrun 16runs jobs queued by 17.Xr at 1 . 18Root's 19.Xr crontab 5 20must contain the line: 21.nf 22 23*/10 * * * * root /usr/libexec/atrun 24 25.fi 26so that 27.Xr atrun 8 28gets called every ten minutes. 29.Pp 30At every invocation, every job in lowercase queues whose starting time 31has passed is started. 32A maximum of one batch job (denoted by uppercase queues) is started 33each time 34.Nm atrun 35is invoked. 36.Sh OPTIONS 37.Bl -tag -width indent 38.It Fl l Ar load_avg 39Specifies a limiting load factor, over which batch jobs should 40not be run, instead of the compiled-in value of 1.5. 41.It Fl d 42Debug; print error messages to standard error instead of using 43.Xr syslog 3 . 44.El 45.Sh WARNINGS 46For 47.Nm atrun 48to work, you have to start up a 49.Xr cron 8 50daemon. 51.Sh FILES 52.Bl -tag -width /var/at/spool -compact 53.It Pa /var/at/spool 54Directory containing output spool files 55.It Pa /var/at/jobs 56Directory containing job files 57.El 58.Sh SEE ALSO 59.Xr cron 8 , 60.Xr crontab 1 , 61.Xr crontab 5 , 62.Xr at 1 , 63.Xr syslog 3 . 64.Sh BUGS 65The functionality of 66.Nm atrun 67should be merged into 68.Xr cron 8 . 69.Sh AUTHOR 70Thomas Koenig <ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>. 71