Posted October 7th, 2005 @ 08:00am by Erik J. Barzeski
Question: Do you use cron?
My Answer: Yes, and frankly, it's one of the best things to happen to the Mac OS. God forbid you try to run something scheduled in Mac OS 9 - it wouldn't happen if you were logged out, the machine froze or crashed too frequently, etc.
You are encouraged to answer the Question of the Day for yourself in the comments or on your blog.
This blog contains posts, all written by me, and comments, only some of which were written by me.
About Me
Disclaimer
The Sand Trap
… via Email
firstname@lastname.com
(Think about that one a little.)
… via IM
AIM: iacas
MobileMe: iacas
flickr: iacas
Yahoo: iacas
Twitter: iacas
MSN: iacas@hotmail.com
Xbox Live: erikjb
Google Talk: erikjb@gmail.com
ICQ: 8186546
Don't email me at any of the above IM addresses or I may never see the email. I use these accounts primarily for chat (IM) only.
… on Facebook
http://facebook.com/iacas
Donate Life: Because if you're not using your body parts, someone else can.
Posted 06 Oct 2005 at 7:35pm #
Yes, cron is one of my favorite things. I'm not so much a fan of launchd yet... I still use cron in Tiger.
Posted 06 Oct 2005 at 8:49pm #
Yeah, I use cron. I'm migrating to launchd though. Launchd is pretty damn cool and it is really easy.
Posted 06 Oct 2005 at 9:42pm #
Yes. I run a cron job on one of my machines to do a mysqldump on my webservers several times a week to backup the database. I use Deja Vu on my powerbook with a cron job to back up every night to my server.
Posted 06 Oct 2005 at 10:29pm #
well, I use cron at work, mostly on our Solaris, FreeBSD, and Linux servers. (The Solaris machines are almost all gone .. one left, and hopefully it will be gone soon) .. I don't think I've ever actually used it on Mac OS X.
Posted 07 Oct 2005 at 2:36am #
Unfortunately, cron only tries to run when the computer is on. So if you turn your Mac off every night, cron tasks may not run. If you install 'anacron' (available from your usual sources of Unixy software) then everything's hunky-dory.