same for me, i use cron, identically as an "old" Mac OS X or a UNIX-
like system
man cron
Banana
On Nov 21, 2005, at 2:47 AM, Miguel Arroz wrote:
Hi!
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...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
"http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";>
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>backupAtlantida</string>
<key>LowPriorityIO</key>
<true/>
<key>Program</key>
<string>/Volumes/BackUps/backups/scripts/backup-
atlantida.command</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/Volumes/BackUps/backups/scripts/backup-
atlantida.command</string>
</array>
<key>ServiceDescription</key>
<string>Backup diario do disco SCSI</string>
<key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
<dict>
<key>Hour</key>
<integer>1</integer>
<key>Minute</key>
<integer>0</integer>
</dict>
<key>UserName</key>
<string>root</string>
</dict>
</plist>
Yours
Miguel Arroz
"The world lies in the hands of evil
And we pray it would last" -- Apocalyptica, Life Burns!
Miguel Arroz
http://www.ipragma.com
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