Re: Crontab message to user
Re: Crontab message to user
- Subject: Re: Crontab message to user
- From: Donald Hall <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 22:43:28 -0600
Dan,
Take a look at my shareware application "Script Timer" at the web
site in my sig. It's a scheduling program for AppleScripts and
applications. A lot more user friendly than cron, with a drag and
drop interface. It comes with a little script called "Reminder" that
will pop up a dialog on the screen with whatever message you want at
the time you want. You could probably easily modify this script to
avert the shutdown. For example, you could schedule Reminder for
10:55 to pop up a warning message, and then schedule the modified
script to run at 11:00. It would put up a dialog that would give the
user an opportunity to cancel the shutdown, with the default being to
shut down. You could use "giving up after" to have the dialog
automatically go away and the shut down proceed if nobody is around.
You could incorporated /sbin/shutdown into a 'do shell script'
command if you didn't want to use the AppleScript shutdown command.
Don
At 8:01 AM -0700 2003/05/23, email@hidden wrote:
Subject: Crontab message to user
From: Dan Ball <email@hidden>
To: <email@hidden>
Hi Everyone!
I was wondering if this is possible??
We have our machines shutdown every night at 11:00pm, we are currently using
OS 9 which is easy to do.
We want to do this with OS X when we move to it. I have a Crontab to
/sbin/shutdown -h now at 11:00 everyday.
How could I get a GUI message to pop up saying at like 10:55pm to warn a
logged in user that the system is going to shutdown at 11:00pm, please save
all your work before that time.
Probably would be nice to let the user cancel it also!
Thanks,
Dan Ball
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Donald S. Hall, Ph.D.
Apps & More Software Design, Inc.
email@hidden
http://www.appsandmore.com
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