1.\" 2.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Christopher G. Demetriou 3.\" All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 6.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 7.\" are met: 8.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 9.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 10.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 12.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 13.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 14.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 15.\" This product includes software developed by Christopher G. Demetriou. 16.\" 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products 17.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission 18.\" 19.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 20.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES 21.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. 22.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 23.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT 24.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, 25.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY 26.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT 27.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF 28.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 29.\" 30.\" $Id: atrun.8,v 1.3 1994/11/03 15:37:52 jtc Exp $ 31.\" 32.Dd December 5, 1993 33.Dt ATRUN 8 34.Os NetBSD 0.9a 35.Sh NAME 36.Nm atrun 37.Nd run jobs queued for later execution 38.\" 39.Sh SYOPSIS 40.Nm atrun 41.Sh DESCRIPTION 42The 43.Nm atrun 44utility runs commands queued by 45.Xr at 1 . 46It is usually invoked by 47.Xr cron 8 48every ten minutes. 49.Sh FILES 50.Bl -tag -width /var/at/lockfile -compact 51.It Pa /var/at/jobs 52Directory containing job files 53.It Pa /var/at/spool 54Directory containing output spool files 55.It Pa /var/at/lockfile 56Job-creation lock file. 57.El 58.Sh SEE ALSO 59.Xr cron 8 , 60.Xr at 1 61.Sh AUTHOR 62.Bl -tag 63Thomas Koenig, ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de 64.El 65.Sh BUGS 66The functionality of 67.Nm atrun 68should arguaby be merged into 69.Xr cron 8 . 70.Sh CAVEATS 71Since the default configuration causes 72.Nm atrun 73to be invoked every ten minutes, 74commands queued by 75.Xr at 1 76may end up being executed up to nine minutes 77later than would be otherwise expected. 78