Table of Contentsatrun - run jobs queued for later execution atrun [-l load_avg] [-d] 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.
- -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).
For atrun to work, you have to start up a cron daemon. /var/spool/atspool/
/var/spool/atjobs/ at(1), cron(1), crontab(1), syslog(3) The functionality of atrun should be merged into cron(1).
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