Use Automator to launch a program every night at midnight

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Emmerac wrote:
If iCal is not running at the scheduled time, the workflow will run when iCal is next opened.

Is there no way around this? A basic feature would be to run something as the system, without a user logged in, like cron on a linux system. I know about launchd but I really don't want to learn all of the boiler plate code necesssary to run a simple shell script that I want to run every night to rsync a directory for a mirror. This seems like a really simple thing to want a server to do, and there seems to be no way to do it without some user logging into the system. Really weird.

Author's web site says Lingon requires Snow Leopard for old version and Lion for new.

Cronnix. From what others say, Cron will run even when logged out.

I just went with a .plist file and launchd

Hey Im very new to automator. I need to do something very simular. I need to open a web page and log in every day then log out. can automator do this??