Re: cron as root Revisited

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From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject	Re: cron as root Revisited
Date	27 Aug 2015 18:14:37 GMT
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On 2015-08-27, Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> wrote:
>
> Restructure your code to not use any of the MacOS features like 
> Automator and only use the Unix commands.  I'm not sure, but a cronjob
> that opens windows, click's things in windows, etc. requires the Finder 
> to be active and running to process the events crated by the Automator 
> task.  That environment isn't present in a cron job.

He's been advised to do things differently here before. If history is
any indicator, he will ignore such advice and instead continue futzing
around with his misguided setup, and we'll be hearing from him again in
another couple months.

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JR

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cron as root Revisited csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2015-08-26 01:02 -0700
  Re: cron as root Revisited Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-08-26 10:43 -0400
    Re: cron as root Revisited csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2015-08-27 00:33 -0700
      Re: cron as root Revisited Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-08-27 04:14 -0400
      Re: cron as root Revisited Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2015-08-27 08:02 -0700
        Re: cron as root Revisited JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-08-27 11:28 -0400
          Re: cron as root Revisited Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-08-27 15:03 -0400
            Re: cron as root Revisited csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2015-08-28 01:12 -0700
              Re: cron as root Revisited Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-08-28 10:35 -0400
                Re: cron as root Revisited Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-28 15:35 +0000
        Re: cron as root Revisited Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-27 18:14 +0000
  Re: cron as root Revisited Tom Stiller <clusterfux.upmon@gmail.com> - 2015-08-26 21:44 +0000
    Re: cron as root Revisited csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2015-08-27 00:33 -0700
  Re: cron as root Revisited csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2015-08-31 23:32 -0700

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