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Re: Crontab doesn't work for me


  • Subject: Re: Crontab doesn't work for me
  • From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 23:55:43 +0100

Title: Re: Crontab doesn't work for me
on 21/9/04 10:47 pm, Dan Doughtie at email@hidden wrote:

Any ideas? I thought about writing an app that does the same thing every 5 minutes but I’ve had lousy luck writing “on idle” statements that work reliably.

Why bother using AppleScript when you can use “open –a” from the shell?

You need to be careful to get the app name exactly right, but it would seem more direct than getting cron to launch a script to launch an app. And errors can be sent to the bitbucket in the normal way...

Regards

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Martin Orpen
Idea Digital Imaging Ltd -- The Image Specialists
http://www.idea-digital.com
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