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I would recommend anacron instead
Authored by: Anonymous on May 04, '02 09:19:08AM

Use Fink to install anacron and let it handle the daily/weekly/monthly scripts instead. Anacron works like cron but understands that computers can be turned off. Install and forget, it will just work.



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I would recommend anacron instead
Authored by: monickels on May 04, '02 10:57:32AM

I concur with the choice of anacron. What it does for me--with not configuration--is checks every hour at :15 after to see if the scripts have been run in that calendar day (midnight to midnight, not the last 24 hours). If not, it runs them.

The only side effect of this which may be bothersome is that the scripts are rather processor intensive so if you've got other heavy work going on, it's a bit annoying to wait those five or ten minutes for the scripts to finish, during which time you may get the spinning rainbow disk, particularly if you're in the habit of checking your email first thing in the morning, or worse, when you get home from bars at 2 a.m., two times when you may not have the time or patience to deal with the spinning disk.



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I would recommend anacron instead
Authored by: hayne on May 04, '02 11:43:08AM
the scripts are rather processor intensive so if you've got other heavy work going on, it's a bit annoying to wait those five or ten minutes for the scripts to finish
I agree - this is what has inhibited me from doing anything so far about making the scripts run during "normal" hours. So what would be good would be a dialog (could be done with AppleScript) that would ask "Is this a good time?" and allow me to postpone script execution like a snooze button on an alarm clock.

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