At 2003-05-21, 07.30 CET, Wayne Brissette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Max Gossell [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 5/21/03 at 7:05 AM stated: > >>I'm confused as well. Like I've no idea what a "crontab" is... > >cron is a UNIX utility built into Mac OS X that allows you to schedule >certain events. You can run UNIX shell scripts, AppleScripts, pretty much >whatever you can do via terminal you can schedule using cron. > >The actual configuration file is called a crontab. > >If you open up terminal and type: > >man cron > >then press return, the unix man (manual) entry for cron is displayed. you >can also do > >man crontab > >for the man page for crontab. > >Hope this helps. >Wayne OK - thanks. It explained things. But UNIX, or just open the Terminal, gives me the creeps. Far over my head. I guess I'll just have to hope for the CTM folks and their To Do list... Max G
