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Re: Crontab doesn't work for me
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Re: Crontab doesn't work for me


  • Subject: Re: Crontab doesn't work for me
  • From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 17:39:38 -0700

On 9/21/04 4:30 PM, "Martin Orpen" <email@hidden> wrote:

> Entourage can launch an AppleScript using its own rules. Therefore you'd
> only need to ensure that Entourage was kept running 24/7 - which could be
> handled by cron easily enough.

Schedule, not rule. Make a schedule to Run AppleScript (saved as a compiled
script, not an app) At Startup.
>
> I think I'd prefer cron doing this rather than an AppleScript idling away
> 24/7 :-)

It works fine. But you might as well just make the schedule to run the
script at a particular time, dispensing with the cron job entirely. You just
have to leave Entourage open.


--
Paul Berkowitz


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