NAME
atrun —
run jobs queued for later
execution
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
atrun runs jobs queued by
at(1). Root's
crontab(5) must contain the
line:
*/10 * * * * /usr/libexec/atrun
so that
atrun gets called every ten minutes.
At every invocation, every job in lowercase queues whose starting time has
passed is started. A maximum of one batch job (denoted by uppercase queues) is
started each time
atrun is invoked.
OPTIONS
-
-
- -l
load_avg
- 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, a
cron(8) daemon needs to be
running.
FILES
- /var/at/spool
- Directory containing output spool files
- /var/at/jobs
- Directory containing job files
SEE ALSO
at(1),
crontab(1),
syslog(3),
crontab(5),
cron(8)
AUTHORS
Thomas Koenig
<
ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
BUGS
The functionality of
atrun should be merged into
cron(8).