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ATRUN(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual ATRUN(8) NAME atrun - run jobs queued for later execution SYNOPSIS atrun [-l load_avg] [-d] DESCRIPTION Atrun runs jobs queued by at(1). The system crontab(5) file /etc/crontab must contain the line */5 * * * * root /usr/libexec/atrun so atrun is invoked every five minutes. At every invocation, atrun starts all the jobs in the lowercase queues whose start time has elapsed. 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. Before starting a job, atrun checks the status of its owner's account with pam(3) and refuses to run the job if the account is unavailable, e.g., locked out or expired. OPTIONS -l load_avg Specify a limiting load factor, over which batch jobs should not be run, instead of the default of 1.5 * number of active CPUs. -d Debug; print error messages to standard error instead of using syslog(3). WARNINGS For atrun to work, a cron(8) daemon must be running atrun periodically. FILES /etc/pam.d/atrun pam.conf(5) configuration file for atrun /var/at/jobs Directory containing job files /var/at/spool Directory containing output spool files SEE ALSO at(1), crontab(1), pam(3), syslog(3), crontab(5), pam.conf(5), cron(8) BUGS The functionality of atrun should be merged into cron(8). FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11 June 22, 2015 FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11