[Brazuca]

Someone help me out here. I've scoured the web for information on this and I still don't have a good answer.

First, this is my goal: have OSX run an Automator action in the middle of the night, or as soon as the computer wakes up. And have it run wheather any user is logged in or if nobody is logged in.

Simple, right?

Well, a simple cron job isn't working. Apparently cron has trouble launching basic commands (do I need a Perl script or something here?)

So the obvious alternative is launch deamon (launchd). But Apple apparently still hasn't fixed the bug where launchd doesn't keep track of elapsed sleep time, so there is some "drift" in the launch time (if you sleep your computer for 5 hours, the schedule will move back by 5 hours).

So, could anyone suggest a solution to this simple task? There are a lot of third party apps out there, and I just wanted to hear from someone who has done this to advise me on the best method of doing this.

Thanks.

[Hal Itosis]

Have you tried Anacron already?

[Brazuca]

Originally Posted by Hal Itosis

Have you tried Anacron already?

I will give it a try, but I thought that cron was deprecated.

Btw, your breath stinks.

[Brazuca]

Ok, I tried Anacron, but it seems to assume some knowledge of editing configuration files, etc.

Question, in Anacron, if I want to set up a command (open /path/app) to be run by any user, how do I set it up? Detailed instructions would be best please, as my CLI knowledge is pretty limited.