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Q: Does Snow Leopard take care of cron sripts?
Are cron scripts still relavant in Snow Leopard and if you shut down/sleep your Mac overnight, does Snow Leopard take care of them when it starts or wakes up?
2.2 Ghz MacBook + 24" Imac, Mac OS X (10.6)
Posted on Sep 4, 2009 2:58 AM
by Jeffrey Jones2,Solvedanswer
I haven't installed Snow Leopard yet, but I doubt that it is much changed from Leopard.
First, there are no "cron" scripts. Apple stopped using cron years ago. Since Tiger, these scripts are scheduled using a new service called launchd.
If your machine is up long enough, they will run automatically. Your machine does not have to be awake at any scheduled time. If you shut down your machine every night, they won't run -- but in that case there is no reason to run them at all. For most users, these scripts don't do anything significant until the machine has been up for at least 3 days continuously. That is really the point of these scripts -- to take care of things if the machine hasn't been restarted in a long time.
There is no reason to do anything at all, except to let these tasks take care of themselves.
First, there are no "cron" scripts. Apple stopped using cron years ago. Since Tiger, these scripts are scheduled using a new service called launchd.
If your machine is up long enough, they will run automatically. Your machine does not have to be awake at any scheduled time. If you shut down your machine every night, they won't run -- but in that case there is no reason to run them at all. For most users, these scripts don't do anything significant until the machine has been up for at least 3 days continuously. That is really the point of these scripts -- to take care of things if the machine hasn't been restarted in a long time.
There is no reason to do anything at all, except to let these tasks take care of themselves.
Posted on Sep 5, 2009 3:57 PM