Is there a way to use the good old cron to launch processes at a
predefined time on 10.4 systems? I only seem to get Launchd to
launch tasks to be done every X minutes (I have two of them on a
Tiger Server machine). When I try a task to start, for example,
everyday at 1AM (using the StartCalendarInterval), nothing
happens... I'm started to get really "happy" about launchd... it's
a wonderful idea, but what's the use if it's so buggy it cannot
launch my processes in a reliable way?
For example, yesterday I added a new task to be launched at 1AM
every day. I checked with launchctl list and it was there. Today,
it's 1:45 AM here, and it did NOT run, and does not show up on
launchctl list... what the heck is this?
I paste the plist file here, just to check if I'm doing something
wrong...
Scheduled tasks don't really work with launchd right now. It's a
known bug, for now I still use cron.
