How can I start/enable `at` on MacOSX?

Question

I just noticed that at jobs submitted in my terminal on MacOSX are never executed:

$ atq
2   Fri Feb  7 12:07:00 2014
3   Mon Feb 10 10:36:00 2014
4   Sun Mar  9 09:59:00 2014
5   Mon Mar 10 13:39:00 2014
6   Tue Jul  1 10:25:00 2014
7   Mon Jun  2 22:00:00 2014
9   Thu Jun 26 13:51:00 2014
10  Thu Jul 24 08:29:00 2014
$ date
Thu Jul 10 09:22:29 CEST 2014

In MacOSX, how do I enable at job execution? I'm running MacOSX 10.9.3.

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score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:17

I believe this answer will answer your question. To quote the relevant part:

To enable te needed `atrun` daemon, as `man atrun` says, execute:

  launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.atrun.plist

as root (e.g. via `sudo`). Once you've done that, `/var/at/` will be the key directory (though the simplest way is to use `at` as root -- e.g., once again, by `sudo`!-).

How can I start/enable `at` on MacOSX?

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