[wteixeir]

does anyone know how to make a script to restart my computer every 3 days for example at a specified time ????? Could it show a warning before restarting ?????

[Mithras]

Use Cronnix to add a Crontab entry that looks like this:

Code:
30      6       *      *       1,3,5     /usr/bin/osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to restart'

That will restart the computer at 6:30am every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Why do you want to do this? Is there some underlying problem that you hope restarting will fix?

[Stingrey]

Was doing something to upgrade perl so I could get showtimes to work (application for the palm, well, the treo in my case... it downloads movie times to a local database to the palm so I can check movie times/listings in my area) and finally got it working, but then went to cron to make an entry and either I don't know what I'm doing (highly possible :) or I broke something when I fixed the other thing... I went to make a cron entry and when I do, nothing happens at the specified time...

% man crontab

zcat: /usr/share/man/cat1/crontab.1.gz: not in gzip format

As you can see, man crontab and man cron give errors to me just like the one above... I made an entry manually and using cronnix and neither entry attempt either in an individual user or as a system entry work for me. Any ideas?

Rey :)

15 3 * * * root periodic daily
30 4 * * 6 root periodic weekly
30 5 1 * * root periodic monthly
24 * * * * * /usr/bin/open "/Users/stingrey/showtimes-0.5-unix/getdata.pl
24 * * * * * /Users/stingrey/showtimes-0.5-unix/getdata.pl

[Stingrey]

Believe it or not, ran the script before it was relocated, it worked... Moved it just before adding cron entry. After move, realized had to do a -c to specify the path to the config file... That was the main prob, then the script was owned by root... Chowned to user, ran as user, and viola!!!

Rey