No.
CRON only runs if the hard drive is active, it will not run if the
drive is sleeping.
Jerry
On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 03:07 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote:
> Does it do these things even if the Mac is "sleeping?"
>
> Friday, March 7, 200310:16 AMLee LarsonLeeLarson at mac.com
>
>> On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 03:16 AM, Allen Prunty worried:
>>
>>> What does my mac do when I'm sleeping?
>>
>> There's a utility called cron on Unix systems that is used to schedule
>> periodic tasks. The list of things your Mac does is contained in the
>> file /etc/crontab. Here's the one from Mac OS X
>>
>> [Lee-Larsons-Computer:Mordor] lee% cat /etc/crontab
>> # /etc/crontab
>> SHELL=/bin/sh
>> PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
>> HOME=/var/log
>> #
>> #minute hour mday month wday who command
>> #
>> #*/5 * * * * root /usr/libexec/atrun
>> #
>> # Run daily/weekly/monthly jobs.
>> 15 3 * * * root periodic daily
>> 30 4 * * 6 root periodic weekly
>> 30 5 1 * * root periodic monthly
>>
>> A * in the chart is a wild card that means to do it all the times for
>> that column. It's a 24-hour clock. This one runs three different sets
>> of scripts that live in the directory /etc/periodic. You can look at
>> them with the terminal. They do things like rotate the log files and
>> remove temporary files. Sometimes they're even interesting to read
>> because of the technical language. For example, here's a snippet from
>> 500.daily.
>>
>> # Clean up NFS turds. May be useful on NFS servers.
>> #if [ "${host}" != "localhost" ]; then
>> # find / -name .nfs\* -mtime +7 -exec rm -f -- {} \; -o -fstype nfs
>> -prune
>> #fi
>>
>> if [ -d /tmp ]; then
>> cd /tmp && {
>> find . -fstype local -type f -atime +3 -ctime +3 -exec rm -f -- {}
>> \;
>> find -fstype local -d . ! -name . -type d -mtime +1 -exec rmdir --
>> {} \; \
>>> /dev/null 2>&1; }
>> fi
>>
>>
>>
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