Re: AppleScript as cron job
Re: AppleScript as cron job
- Subject: Re: AppleScript as cron job
- From: "Timothy K. Wilkinson" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 13:27:25 -0400
Steve,
Many thanks! Adding "osascript " to the front of the path in the crontab
did the trick.
Tim Wilkinson
ITC-ACHS
University of Virginia
email@hidden
>
From: Steve Mills <email@hidden>
>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:41:00 -0500
>
To: email@hidden
>
Subject: Re: AppleScript as cron job
>
>
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/
_______________________________________________
applescript-users mailing list | email@hidden
Help/Unsubscribe/Archives:
http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/applescript-users
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.