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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
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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