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Ztyx
Asked: 2011-12-13 08:23:26 +0800 CST

How to restart atd without affecting running jobs?

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Does anyone know how to restart atd without affecting current running (batch) jobs?

I guess I could move the jobs out of the spool directory and wait for the current running jobs to finish, but I'm curious to hear.

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1 Answers

  1. What OS are you using?

    On Centos Redhat 5. I was able to restart atd with /etc/init.d/atd restart. My running jobs were unaffected and my scheduled jobs survived the restart:

    $ date
Mon Dec 12 16:41:07 GMT 2011

    As root:

    # /etc/init.d/atd restart

    They are still in the atq:

    $ atq
2       2011-12-12 16:37 = bobby
1       2011-12-12 16:36 = bobby
4       2011-12-12 17:00 a bobby
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