atrun
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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).
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