Category

Linux Command


Usage

atrm [-V] job [job...]


Manual

at and batch read commands from standard input or a specified file
which are to be executed at a later time.

at executes commands at a specified time.

atq lists the user’s pending jobs, unless the user is the supe-
ruser; in that case, everybody’s jobs are listed. The format
of the output lines (one for each job) is: Job number, date,
hour, queue, and username.

atrm deletes jobs, identified by their job number.

batch executes commands when system load levels permit; in other
words, when the load average drops below 0.8, or the value
specified in the invocation of atd.

At allows fairly complex time specifications, extending the POSIX.2
standard. It accepts times of the form HH:MM to run a job at a spe-
cific time of day. (If that time is already past, the next day is
assumed.) You may also specify midnight, noon, or teatime (4pm) and
you can have a time-of-day suffixed with AM or PM for running in the
morning or the evening. You can also say what day the job will be run,
by giving a date in the form month-name day with an optional year, or
giving a date of the form MMDDYY or MM/DD/YY or DD.MM.YY or YYYY-MM-DD.
The specification of a date must follow the specification of the time
of day. You can also give times like now + count time-units, where the
time-units can be minutes, hours, days, or weeks and you can tell at to
run the job today by suffixing the time with today and to run the job
tomorrow by suffixing the time with tomorrow.

For example, to run a job at 4pm three days from now, you would do at
4pm + 3 days, to run a job at 10:00am on July 31, you would do at 10am
Jul 31 and to run a job at 1am tomorrow, you would do at 1am tomorrow.

The exact definition of the time specification can be found in
/usr/share/doc/at-3.1.10/timespec.

For both at and batch, commands are read from standard input or the
file specified with the -f option and executed. The working directory,
the environment (except for the variables TERM, DISPLAY and _) and the
umask are retained from the time of invocation. An at - or batch -
command invoked from a su(1) shell will retain the current userid. The
user will be mailed standard error and standard output from his com-
mands, if any. Mail will be sent using the command /usr/sbin/sendmail.
If at is executed from a su(1) shell, the owner of the login shell will
receive the mail.

The superuser may use these commands in any case. For other users,
permission to use at is determined by the files /etc/at.allow and
/etc/at.deny.

If the file /etc/at.allow exists, only usernames mentioned in it are
allowed to use at.

If /etc/at.allow does not exist, /etc/at.deny is checked, every user-
name not mentioned in it is then allowed to use at.

If neither exists, only the superuser is allowed use of at.

An empty /etc/at.deny means that every user is allowed use these com-
mands, this is the default configuration.


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