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Re: Setting up a cron job
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Re: Setting up a cron job


  • Subject: Re: Setting up a cron job
  • From: Graff <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 19:31:16 -0400

I would use a GUI utility to edit your crontab file, it's the quickest and easiest way to do this. A good GUI utility is CronniX:
<http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/9478>

Your computer will not automatically wake itself to run a cron job and if it is asleep or off when the cron job would normally run then the job is not run until the next time it should run.

You might want to use a utility like ResurrXtion to wake your Mac back up at certain times:
<http://homepage.mac.com/starman/ResurrXtion.html>

Poke around Version Tracker <http://versiontracker.com/> to find more applications to help with scheduling stuff.

Here is some basic info on the shell, Mac OS X, and cron jobs:
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2001/12/14/terminal_one.html>
<http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031111110802488>
<http://www.net.my/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=14>
<https://panel.dreamhost.com/kbase/index.cgi?area=2506>

- Ken

On May 24, 2004, at 4:11 PM, Steven Valenti wrote:

I would like to schedule a back-up script to run weekdays starting at
9 PM. I have never set up a cron job before. I understand how the
daily/weekly/monthly/ect...... is organized. Looking in terminal I can
see Norton software has already put some tasks in the Users crontab,
but how now do I open this in Pico to edit it? If I can edit it, can I
just type a path, under the command, to an applescript compiled file
anywhere on the drive. Do I need to set the computer to never go to
sleep or is there a way to wake it before cron is run? If cron is all I
need I would prefer learning rather then getting other software to do
this job. Does anyone know of sites that could give me more information
to get started?
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