I am curious as to how I should set things up if I wanted my PB to wake up at 4am every saturday to perform the weekly maintenance plus repairing disk permissions.
I used the energy saver to have my PB wake up at 4am and go back to sleep at 4:10am on Saturdays only.
Then I configured Macaroni to run the weekly maintence plus repair disk permissions on every saturday. Also, since it is in the middle of the night, I disabled the idle detection so that the jobs would get started right away. Which actually brings up another question, since both jobs are scheduled for every saturday and there is no idle-time limitation, will they run simultaneously? And if so, will that cause problems?
My question is: the weekly maintenance and the repairing disk permissions can take a while. However, since the option to auto-wake up and auto-sleep in Energy Saver pane are applied whether or not the PB is plugged in or on battery, I wanted to minimize this wake up time at night to avoid wasting my battery (thus the short 10 minute window). Now what I'm worried about is will the forced 4:10 shutdown time cut short a job in progress? So say the job(s) take more than ten minutes, will the PB go to sleep regardless, or will it wait until the job is complete, then go to sleep? I still have that "only run job if plugged in" option checked, so if my PB is on battery on saturday morning it will just run for 10 minutes and go back to sleep. I figure that is a minimal hit on battery life which in reality will not even happen that often.
If the system waits for the job to finish, I guess I could get away with even setting the wakeup for 4am and the shutdown for 4:01 or 4:02- that way it would reduce a wasted battery powered wakeup even more.
So anyways I digress. If I keep to this wakeup/shutdown schedule set in the Energy Saver will my jobs still get run? I noticed that my usage habits on my PB prevent the Macaroni jobs from running at all if I do not change the default settings. This is because I more or less wake the PB up, use it pretty constantly until I am finished, then immediately close the lid to put it back to sleep. Therefore there really isn't a 5 minute window where the computer is idle so a job will begin to run. That is why I want to set up some kind of automated setup where it gets done in the middle of the night. (The way the default cron jobs should have been set up in the first place
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