[besson3c]

Is there a way to have cron automatically "catch up" on jobs it may have missed while my machine was asleep?

(I'm speaking of my own crontabs, not the Apple system crontabs)....

[Millennium]

If you use Fink, there's a program called anacron that does just this. Unfortunately I don't think there are any installers for it except through Fink, but if you know how to use that, you're all set. It's completely automatic, so it's basically install-and-forget.

From the Terminal, once you have Fink installed, it's just fink install anacron

[Xeo]

Otherwise MacJanitor can be used to manually do it.

It all depends on if you want to go the extra step and make sure it's always taken care of, or just do it when you remember to.

[alien]

Originally posted by Xeo:
Otherwise MacJanitor can be used to manually do it.

It all depends on if you want to go the extra step and make sure it's always taken care of, or just do it when you remember to.

MacJanitor is nice, but there doesn't seem to be any .out file produced (at least not for all of the jobs). Of course, that may not mean anything. But I found it annoying enough to begin using the command-line instead: 'sudo periodic weekly', etc.