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.\" $FreeBSD$
.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 .
.Pp
Root's
.Xr crontab 5
file
.Pa /etc/crontab
has to contain the line
.Bd -literal
*/5 * * * * root /usr/libexec/atrun
.Ed
.Pp
so that
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.Nm
gets invoked every five minutes.
.Pp
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At every invocation,
.Nm
will start all the jobs in the lowercase queues whose start
time has elapsed.
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In addition, if the load average over the last minute was less than
the specified limit then a maximum of one batch job (denoted by the
uppercase queues) is started.
.Sh OPTIONS
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl l Ar load_avg
Specify a limiting load factor, over which batch jobs should
not be run, instead of the compiled in default of 1.5.
.It Fl d
Debug; print error messages to standard error instead of using
.Xr syslog 3 .
.El
.Sh WARNINGS
For
.Nm
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 at 1 ,
.Xr crontab 1 ,
.Xr syslog 3 ,
.Xr crontab 5 ,
.Xr cron 8
.Sh BUGS
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The functionality of
.Nm
should be merged into
.Xr cron 8 .