On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> wrote:
> On 10Jul2011 03:00, Alexander Kapps <alex.ka...@web.de> wrote: > | On 10.07.2011 02:26, John Salerno wrote: > | >I have a script that does some stuff that I want to run every day for > | >maybe a week, or a month. So far I've been good about running it every > | >night, but is there some way (using Python, of course) that I can make > | >it automatically run at a set time each night? > | > | Use your operating system's facilities to run timed jobs. > | > | Unix/Linux: Cron jobs > | Windows: Scheduled Tasks > | Mac: don't know, but probably Cron too > > Yep. Macs are UNIX, BSD derived. > Macs have Cron, but Apple's trying to switch away from it. They wrote their own framework to replace the various process-launching programs called launchd. It uses a pretty simple XML config file to launch programs either at startup (replacing init) or on an schedule (replacing cron).
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