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What benefit?
Just out of curiosity, what's the benefit of using this hint over putting things into your startup items under the Accounts pref pane?
What benefit?
Apps that you put in your startup field in account preference are launch at login not boot time.
What benefit?
well, for most users, im not sure if there is a huge benefit. i know my school's sysadmins use crontabs to do some pretty useful things, but they would mostly not be relevant to single user machines. but, if say you wanted specific scripts to run for a user enrolled in a particular class whenever he logs in, or if he logs in on a particular day of the week...whatever, you can do things like that...prompt the user to change his password every 6 months, schedule backups, etc, etc.
What benefit?
I found it to be more easy to startup command line programs. No need to create whole Startup item for that... just one line in the crontab.
What benefit?
Except that Apple may or may not step on your modified crontab file in a system update. If you use a StartupItem (and put it in /Library/StartupItems where non-Apple ones belong), you don't have to worry about a system update silently causing your bootup tasks to stop working.
What benefit?
Well, if you add a user crontab and not edit the system crontab (which u shouldnt to anyway) then it will never happen.
What benefit?
Some commands have to be issued by a privileged user, so you couldn't put them in a user crontab. An example of this situation is to have (some) maintenance script run at start-up (like the periodic daily or periodic weekly scripts I pointed at in another comment). Since quite a few computers are off or asleep during the night, most computers have their periodic scripts run at irregular intervals. I'd love to have further extensions to this, something like: @reboot,weekly (which would mean: at reboot, but at most once a week. This would add an administrative burden through). Alternatively: @reboot,monday (at reboot, but on mondays only). Maarten Maarten |
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