Re: AppleScript as cron job
Re: AppleScript as cron job
- Subject: Re: AppleScript as cron job
- From: Steve Mills <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:41:00 -0500
On Monday, Oct 20, 2003, at 15:09 US/Central, Timothy K. Wilkinson
wrote:
I need to run a script on my server each night to clean out old files.
I've
got a script that does it very well and runs perfectly from Script
Editor
and as a compiled application. However I haven't had any success
running it
as a cron job, even as root.
Anyone have any success running AppleScripts as cron jobs? Any words
of
wisdom?
Yup. Here's an entry from my crontab:
*/3 8-17 * * 1-5 osascript
/Users/sjmills/Library/Scripts/BuildFileOfLast10Songs
You'll notice there is no "user" column because this is *my* crontab,
not root's.
Personally, I keep all my tasks in a text file called mycrontab, edit
that when I want to make changes, then do "crontab mycrontab" to apply
those changes to cron. I prefer this method because I always know I
have a copy of mycrontab, like in case I need to totally reinstall, and
I can also easily copy it to another machine, etc.
Steve Mills
Drummer, Mac geek
http://sjmills5.home.mchsi.com/
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