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Re: CRON
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Re: CRON


  • Subject: Re: CRON
  • From: Donald Hall <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 00:35:20 -0700

Robert,

If you want a non Unixy way to do your scheduling, please take a look at Script Timer, a scheduling program that I publish. It has an editor with a drag and drop graphical user interface for setting up your schedules, and a faceless background scheduling engine for running them. Unlike cron, the scheduling engine is a user owned process, which avoids some permissions related problems when you are trying to schedule a script that interacts with a regular Mac program with a graphical user interface. The scheduling engine is also designed to schedule AppleScript scripts (though it does shell and perl scripts too as well as applications). With it you can easily pass parameters to your script, and receive results from the script for storing in Script Timer log file. Also, you can schedule events to run when your computer enters or leaves and idle state, and you can schedule events on the fly by having a script pass a "dynamic action record" back to the scheduling engine to use to create a new event to merge into its schedule.

To learn more about Script Timer, go to http://www.appsandmore.com and click on the Script Timer button.

Regards,

Don
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Apps & More Software Design, Inc.
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