SYNOPSIS

       uscheduled [-d DIR]

DESCRIPTION

       uscheduled  reads  information  about a number of jobs from DIR, or, if
       this is not given, from ~/.uschedule/.

       It then sleeps until one or more of the jobs have to be run,  at  which
       point it will try to run and either reschedule or delete them.

       uscheduled  runs under the rights of the user for whom the programs are
       started. It changes to DIR on startup and runs in an  own  session.  It
       doesn't detach from the terminal or move itself into the background.

       All time calculation is done in UTC.

JOB EXECUTION

       If uscheduled needs to start a job the following will be done:

       *  uscheduled forks a new process.

       *  the new process redirects /dev/null to file descriptors one and two,
          if desired.

       *  the new process changes to $HOME.

       *  the new process executes the program.

       *  uscheduled reschedules the job.  The users program will inherit  the
          environment  of  the  daemon,  unless otherwise indicated during job
          creation  time.   The  standard  input  will  be   redirected   from
          /dev/null. By default the file descriptors one and two (standard and
          error output) are not redirected, meaning that the  output  will  go
          into the same log files as the output of the daemon, if any.

SIGNAL HANDLING

       uscheduled   exits   gracefully   on   SIGTERM.   It  reloads  the  job
       specifications on SIGHUP.

AUTHOR

       Uwe Ohse, uwe@ohse.de

SEE ALSO

       uschedule(1), uschedule_intro(7).

       The homepage may be more up-to-date, see
       http://www.ohse.de/uwe/uschedule.html.



uschedule                            0.7.1                       uscheduled(8)