From cdb886795d3988051119118269c49936a462d50f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 15:33:12 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document the fact that at(1) is run through cron(8) and that this affects the granularity of the at queue runs. Submitted by: mux --- usr.bin/at/at.man | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/usr.bin/at/at.man b/usr.bin/at/at.man index a972af93acfd..aa19b14628c4 100644 --- a/usr.bin/at/at.man +++ b/usr.bin/at/at.man @@ -186,6 +186,20 @@ to use If neither exists, only the superuser is allowed use of .Nm Ns . This is the default configuration. +.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES +Note that +.Nm +is implemented through the +.Xr cron 8 +daemon by calling +.Xr atrun 8 +every five minutes. +This implies that the granularity of +.Nm +might not be optimal for every deployment. +If a finer granularity is needed the system crontab at +.Pa /etc/crontab +needs to be changed. .Sh OPTIONS .Bl -tag -width indent .It Fl q Ar queue