Re: [Fink-users] anacron and launchd

2005-10-12 Thread Koen van der Drift
On Oct 9, 2005, at 4:12 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote: As far as reliability goes, I do remember that at first some jobs wouldn't fire occasionally, mostly the weekly job. Daily was pretty reliable. Checking my logs shows that it's been very reliable for the past few months, but I'm also runnin

Re: [Fink-users] anacron and launchd

2005-10-09 Thread Daniel Johnson
On Oct 9, 2005, at 12:48 PM, Koen van der Drift wrote: On Oct 9, 2005, at 11:13 AM, Dave Vasilevsky wrote: On Oct 7, 2005, at 6:49 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote: StartInterval [snip] StartCalendarInterval I heard that this feature of launchd didn't actually work consistently.

Re: [Fink-users] anacron and launchd

2005-10-09 Thread Koen van der Drift
On Oct 9, 2005, at 11:13 AM, Dave Vasilevsky wrote: On Oct 7, 2005, at 6:49 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote: StartInterval [snip] StartCalendarInterval I heard that this feature of launchd didn't actually work consistently. Have you verified that it works? I'd just like to know f

Re: [Fink-users] anacron and launchd

2005-10-09 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Oct 7, 2005, at 6:49 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote: StartInterval [snip] StartCalendarInterval I heard that this feature of launchd didn't actually work consistently. Have you verified that it works? I'd just like to know for sure before relying on it. Dave PGP.sig Descriptio

Re: [Fink-users] anacron and launchd

2005-10-09 Thread Richard Cobbe
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 06:49:21PM -0400, Daniel Johnson wrote: > Another note, which I haven't seen reported anywhere, is that > starting with 10.4.2 launchd now has anacron-like abilities built-in. > From "man launchd.plist": > > StartInterval > This optional key causes the job to

Re: [Fink-users] anacron and launchd

2005-10-07 Thread Koen van der Drift
On Oct 7, 2005, at 6:49 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote: So anacron is now redundant. I no longer use anacron for anything, but just rely on launchd to take care of things. Thanks, that's awesome!! BTW, I found a nice editor for launchd: http://www.codepoetry.net/ products/launchdeditor. Make

Re: [Fink-users] anacron and launchd

2005-10-07 Thread Daniel Johnson
On Oct 6, 2005, at 9:54 PM, Koen van der Drift wrote: Hi, I am converting from using cron to launchd to run the daily, weekly, etc scripts. So I followed the instructions at macosxhints (). So just to start with a clean shee

[Fink-users] anacron and launchd

2005-10-06 Thread Koen van der Drift
Hi, I am converting from using cron to launchd to run the daily, weekly, etc scripts. So I followed the instructions at macosxhints (www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050508193528477>). So just to start with a clean sheet, I removed anacron, and reinstalled it. Then I got the followin