Rob Findlay wrote:
General automatic
maintenance is carried out by the various scripts which are controlled by
Cron and if your mac is left turned on 24/7 it all gets done at the right
times.
I simply don't get this. Mac OS X is at its fourth major revision, and
Apple still haven't put a tool like anacron in place to run scripts
after the machine next starts up if it misses a timed job. This is
_really_ not difficult, and it's also not hard to make it wait until the
system load is low if they want to avoid disrupting the user.
Does Mac OS X actually do this now, with the "cron isn't getting run"
stuff being a holdover from older versions, or does it still not know
how to run a missed cron job? If the latter, it's time for lots of Mac
users to start filing bugs in Apple's reqest system for "use anacron or
a similar tool to manage missed cron jobs".
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Craig Ringer
