It may depend on which version of X.4 you are running as well; there have been some comments about a bug in the launchd services that affect the cron type tasks; comments floating around on the 'net fora for a while now. Here is almost a synopsis of the stuff;
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=39005 Jerry p.s. It has been a fortuitous bug that will not affect most X users. On Jan 12, 2006, at 4:00 PM, Lee Larson wrote: > On Jan 12, 2006, at 2:58 PM, Jerry Freeman wrote: > >> Interesting, I hadn't noticed the LaunchDaemons file, when did >> those appear? > > I don't know. I just noticed it myself a few days ago when I was > messing around with the root crontab to automate backups. It's > probably not much older than 10.4.3. > >> >> The run report of MacJanitor on 10.4.4 indicates: >> >> Running all tasks.. > > The interesting part is that the old scripts are still there; > they're just not being called by cron any more. Apple is calling > the periodic program directly, and I haven't dug down to see if the > same scripts are being called in the end, or how the scheduling is > working. I'll take a peek at it tonight to see what they're doing. > ----------------------------------- Someday, I will come up with a clever signature line. I am not sure if I will use it or not, but I will come up with one. In the mean time this next one will have to do: ==================== Buying popcorn and wondering what channel the impeachment hearings will be on. or, if you prefer more classical thought, this oldy but goody: Soapbox, Ballot box, Jurybox, Ammo Box; whatever it takes to impeach and remove from office the would-be king and his minions. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2373 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20060112/069b94b8/attachment.bin
