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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: atrun.8,v 1.7 1999/07/09 13:35:51 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: atrun.8,v 1.8 2000/09/08 18:03:26 aaron Exp $
.\" $FreeBSD: atrun.man,v 1.3 1997/02/22 14:20:55 peter Exp $
.Dd April 12, 1995
.Dt ATRUN 8
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
.Op Fl l Ar load_avg
.Op Fl d
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-.Nm Atrun
+.Nm
runs jobs queued by
.Xr at 1 .
Root's
@@ -29,9 +29,10 @@ At every invocation, every job in lowercase queues whose starting time
has passed is started.
A maximum of one batch job (denoted by uppercase queues) is started
each time
-.Nm atrun
+.Nm
is invoked.
-.Sh OPTIONS
+.Pp
+The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl l Ar load_avg
Specifies a limiting load factor, over which batch jobs should
@@ -42,16 +43,16 @@ Debug; print error messages to standard error instead of using
.El
.Sh WARNINGS
For
-.Nm atrun
+.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
+directory containing output spool files
.It Pa /var/at/jobs
-Directory containing job files
+directory containing job files
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr at 1 ,
@@ -59,10 +60,10 @@ Directory containing job files
.Xr syslog 3 ,
.Xr crontab 5 ,
.Xr cron 8
+.Sh AUTHOR
+Thomas Koenig <ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>.
.Sh BUGS
The functionality of
-.Nm atrun
+.Nm
should be merged into
.Xr cron 8 .
-.Sh AUTHOR
-Thomas Koenig <ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>.