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Authored by: thatch on Oct 04, '02 02:47:19AM

Thanks for the suggestions. I agree that the anacron issue is nothing to worry about and isn't a big problem. But you gave me some ideas and I tried tinkering around with it a bit, but no luck. I've read the developer pages on SystemStarter and its associated files and then created the necessary directories and file, (/Library/StartupItems/daemonic-anacron/Resources/English.lproj/localizable.strings). And in the local file I've tried several things based on what I saw in /System/Library/StartupItems but I'm not certain about what is really correct. The file looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist SYSTEM
"file://localhost/System/Library/DTDs/PropertyList.dtd">
<plist version="0.9">
<dict>
<key>Starting timed execution services</key>
<string>Starting timed execution services</string>
<key>Stopping timed execution services</key>
<string>Stopping timed execution services</string>
<key>Restarting timed execution services</key>
<string>Restarting timed execution services</string>
</dict>
</plist>

<services>
....

I've substituted 'anacron', 'ancron services', 'ana(h)cronistic cron: anacron' and ''ana(h)cronistic cron: anacron services for 'timed execution services', (which is the way the file is constructed for cron) and I've also removed the '<services> and even tried adding '<anacron services>' to the end of the file but nothing stops the error, 'Unabel to load localization strings for /Library/StartupItems/daemonic-anacron'. Oh well. Can you think of anything else here?

The other problem with SUM is shared by some others as evidenced here:

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=121297

and here:

http://discussions.info.apple.com/WebX?128@@.3bb9dac1

... and I agree that it looks like SystemStarter is hanging up with the reboot or shutdown depending on the action specified. So, all I can do there is hope for it to be fixed in the next update. There have been bug reports filed. Does SUM from the terminal work for you?



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