1.\" $Id$ 2.Dd April 12, 1995 3.Dt ATRUN 8 4.Os "FreeBSD 2.1" 5.Sh NAME 6.Nm atrun 7.Nd run jobs queued for later execution 8.Sh SYNOPSIS 9.Nm atrun 10.Op Fl l Ar load_avg 11.Op Fl d 12.Sh DESCRIPTION 13.Nm Atrun 14runs jobs queued by 15.Xr at 1 . 16Root's 17.Xr crontab 5 18file 19.Pa /etc/crontab 20has to contain the line 21.nf 22*/5 * * * * root _ATLIB_DIR/atrun 23.fi 24so 25.Xr atrun 8 26gets called every five minutes. 27.Pp 28At every invocation, every job in lowercase queues whose starting time 29has passed is started. 30A maximum of one batch jobs (denoted by uppercase queues) are started 31each time 32.Nm atrun 33is invoked. 34.Sh OPTIONS 35.Bl -tag -width indent 36.It Fl l Ar load_avg 37Specifies a limiting load factor, over which batch jobs should 38not be run, instead of the compiled \- in value of _LOADAVG_MX. 39.It Fl d 40Debug; print error messages to standard error instead of using 41.Xr syslog 3 . 42.El 43.Sh WARNINGS 44For 45.Nm atrun 46to work, you have to start up a 47.Xr cron 8 48daemon. 49.Sh FILES 50.Bl -tag -width _ATSPOOL_DIR -compact 51.It Pa _ATSPOOL_DIR 52Directory containing output spool files 53.It Pa _ATJOB_DIR 54Directory containing job files 55.El 56.Sh SEE ALSO 57.Xr cron 8 , 58.Xr crontab 1 , 59.Xr crontab 5 , 60.Xr at 1 , 61.Xr syslog 3 . 62.Sh BUGS 63The functionality of 64.Nm atrun 65should be merged into 66.Xr cron 8 . 67