atrun

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).