One of the problems I saw with Jag was the fact that it did all its maintenance through cron jobs, like any good Unix-based OS will. However, I've found that can present problems. AFAIK, Unix was designed to run on workstations and servers, where the box is on 24/7. However, a good portion of Macs are laptops, and thusly, aren't on at 12:30 a.m. every morning.
I've had colleagues with Mac laptops running 10.2 complaining about random weirdness. I didn't have the same problems, of course, because I left my machine on all night, and because of this, all my housecleaning was done each night/week/month. So, a little research revealed that vanilla flavored cron will not run if the box is asleep during the scheduled job. I promptly downloaded Cocktail on their 'Books and proceeded to manually clean house. This cleared up their problems - temporarily.
My question is this (sorry for the long intro): does Panther handle this any better? I've told my colleagues how to run Cocktail, but neither of them are as geekish as me, so probably don't think to do so, even if they have problems. It seems like a simple switch over to anacron would solve many of these problems.
And best of all, it's totally automatic once it's set up.
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