.\" $OpenBSD: atrun.8,v 1.3 1997/03/01 23:39:43 millert Exp $ .\" $FreeBSD: atrun.man,v 1.3 1997/02/22 14:20:55 peter Exp $ .Dd April 12, 1995 .Dt ATRUN 8 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm atrun .Nd run jobs queued for later execution .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm atrun .Op Fl l Ar load_avg .Op Fl d .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm Atrun runs jobs queued by .Xr at 1 . Root's .Xr crontab 5 must contain the line: .nf */10 * * * * root /usr/libexec/atrun .fi so that .Xr atrun 8 gets called every ten minutes. .Pp 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 .Nm atrun is invoked. .Sh OPTIONS .Bl -tag -width indent .It Fl l Ar load_avg Specifies a limiting load factor, over which batch jobs should not be run, instead of the compiled \- in value of 1.5. .It Fl d Debug; print error messages to standard error instead of using .Xr syslog 3 . .El .Sh WARNINGS For .Nm atrun to work, you have to start up a .Xr cron 8 daemon. .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width /var/at/spool -compact .It Pa /var/at/spool Directory containing output spool files .It Pa /var/at/jobs Directory containing job files .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr cron 8 , .Xr crontab 1 , .Xr crontab 5 , .Xr at 1 , .Xr syslog 3 . .Sh BUGS The functionality of .Nm atrun should be merged into .Xr cron 8 . .Sh AUTHOR Thomas Koenig <ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>.