How to restart atd without affecting running jobs?

Question

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.

Answer 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