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Re: Crontab doesn't work for me


  • Subject: Re: Crontab doesn't work for me
  • From: Gnarlodious <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 19:02:34 -0600

Entity Brian Johnson spoke thus:

>> have you tried CronniX?
>> http://www.koch-schmidt.de/cronnix/
>>
>> Really excellent interface. Set it up like this to run an Applescript:
>> http://Gnarlodious.com/Apple/AppleScript/iChat/Uptime.png
>
> Cool! I stand (at least partly) corrected. Still... your example concerns
> running scripts from a user's crontab, so they're logged in (and own a
> WindowServer process). Do these work from the system crontab? when no-one
> is logged on?
I don't know, but click on the "Person" tab and you can edit the root
crontab file or create one if it doesn't exist.

> In Dan's case, though, this should do what needs doing (and I wish I'd
> heard of Cronnix a few months ago, before re-inventing that wheel too).
Yeah, it's a low-impact way to schedule anything. I can't stand idling
scripts cluttering up my dock.

> Nice bird.
My bud.

-- Gnarlie

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