>expect that as your cron job isn't running in your login context, it
>can't
access your keychain to get at your password.
Thanks may be you are true. The cronjob is not able to get the password
which hdiutil is expecting to open the sparse image. Now how do I pass the
password to this script instead of getting it from the keychain? I think
it should be possible.
Please....
Ashwin Patil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Graham Lee" <email@hidden>
To: "Ashwin Patil" <email@hidden>;
<email@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: hdiutil compact : crontab
On 30/06/2009 14:21, "Ashwin Patil" <email@hidden> wrote:
Hi all,
I have small issue here. I created a sparse image of 600 GB which is
securing password protected. Now my query is I am using "hdiutil compact
<path_to_sparse_image_file> " to reclaim the unused free space. This
command
works fine when I run this manually, but fails to reclaim the free space
if
I run this through cron entry. Also no any error message it displays. But
bit difference in the log, it says
Initializing.......
Attaching........
Finishing.........
But when I run manually it says,
Initializing.......
Finding free space............
Reclaimed 12 %
Finishing..................
Any idea why it is happening...? Any way that I run this through cron
entry
everyday....?
Did you save the password in your keychain? I've seen that if I don't,
hdiutil compact can't compress the DMG without prompting for my password.
I
expect that as your cron job isn't running in your login context, it can't
access your keychain to get at your password.
Cheers,
Graham.
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