Re: Applescript schedulers
Re: Applescript schedulers
- Subject: Re: Applescript schedulers
- From: Wayne Melrose <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:40:44 +0100
On Nov 20, 2007, at 6:26 AM, Paul Scott wrote:
pico /usr/bin/crontab
does not function as it did in 10.4.
Huh? You're editing a binary executable? Perhaps you meant
pico /var/at/tabs/yourid
Previously, up to and including Tiger you could edit the crontab using
pico.. maybe it's just a conf file or something.. but using pico in
/etc/crontab
it's no longer there, which is how i missed it..
If so, that's not the correct way. To use pico on your crontab
set your EDITOR environment variable to /usr/bin/pico (in your
.cshrc, .login, or whatever -- so it remembers it for future
sessions) and then issue "crontab -e" to edit your crontab.
ok! never used it that way.. :) maybe i've learnt bad methods..
So, is it or is it not going to be removed eventually!? and is it
or is it not going to be replaced by launchd?
I ranted about this earlier, but I'll add one more requirement
to my list of acceptable terms should Apple decide to do so,
they must provide a key such that launchd won't run a job
that was scheduled to run while the computer was sleeping.
Currently, launchd will run the job when the computer wakes up
and cron (on BSD at least) doesn't (shouldn't). To be transparent,
there must be a key that effects this behavior.
I agree.. although at this point I should probably check out launchd
as i know nothing about it at the moment.. :)
Thanks for the education!
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