atrun and getNAME

[Paul Hite]

> What does /usr/lib/getNAME do?

getNAME is a program that is used internally by the man and apropos commands on
a BSD system.  It gets the name from a man page.  You can do a 
	/usr/lib/getNAME /usr/man/man1/echo.1
to see how it works.  You can also use -i or -t with getNAME.  This is a very
specialized command that you probably won't find useful for anything else.

> Also, how is /usr/lib/atrun used by cron and at?

atrun is run from crontab.  It actually runs jobs submitted by the at command.
atrun is only found on BSD systems.  System V cron runs at jobs by itself.

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