[ero2]

I was just getting ready to download anacron because I assumed the cron scripts are the same for all OS, am I correct in this? Hated to open an entire thread for this, but because it works in the bacground and I never know if it is working or not, I wanted to ask.


Also, if I downloaded an app and it siad it installed with errors, but works perfectly, do I really need to worry about anything?

Thanks from a newb to mac OSs.

[ero2]

anyone?

[peterthorn]

Originally Posted by ero2

anyone?

Well, I can't tell if it's working for sure, but I installed it saturday, and by next restart it complained that some startup items needed to have permissions fixed. After I did that, I haven't heard anything (which I take as a good sign...)

Peter

[alphasubzero949]

launchd replaced cron in Tiger. Anacron doesn't work since it cannot find the routines in /etc/crontab

[Ganesha]

If you are using a OS X 10.3.9 or eariler yes, OS X uses the regular UNIX cron tasks.

If you are using OS X 10.4.0 or later. No. OS X has migrated the fuctionality of many things (init, rc, SystemStarter, inetd, xinetd, atd and crond) into lanuchd.

man lunchd for details on how it works. If you need to run a task simlar to what you would do with cron, take a look at com.apple.periodic-daily.plist in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons

[ero2]

I am not sure what to do here.I am still fairly new to macs and am not familiar with what launchd is. Can I just open launch daemeons are, do I just open this and then paste the scripts into the terminal or what?

Thanks.