On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 11:38 AM, Puneet Kishor wrote:
y'know geoff, methinks you are right. There was a "shutdown" folder in OS 9...dunno if it is in OS X. I actually just run the script manually, but I am sure in Unix there are shutdown scripts... I haven't explored in OS X, but in Linux there are a set of scripts that are run when rebooting or shutting down. I presume there will be something analagous in OS X.Geoff was making a joke, but his point is that in X there's not really any need to shutdown the computer anymore. Just put it to sleep, since it wakes so damn fast. I would suggest leaving the machine on all the time and installing a crontab entry to run psync at a specific time. Or, if you're on a laptop, install anacron and do it that way.
There is no Shutdown folder in X as far as I am aware. There's not even a Startup folder, which is a shame. (Okay, there is, but you have to know how to write shell scripts. You can't just put an alias to something in there the way you could in 9.)
jon
