Re: cron as root Revisited

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: cron as root Revisited
Date	2015-08-28 15:35 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID	<d4bdejF90e7U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References	(3 earlier) <vilain-E1E61B.08021527082015@news.individual.net> <55df2c85$0$1551$c3e8da3$12bcf670@news.astraweb.com> <barmar-901A07.15031127082015@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu> <1m9uasu.hbb2as1s24v0wN%csampson@inetworld.net> <barmar-EF2BEA.10352628082015@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu>

Show all headers | View raw

On 2015-08-28, Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> In article <1m9uasu.hbb2as1s24v0wN%csampson@inetworld.net>,
>  csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) wrote:
>
>> There's no GUI involved in this job, beyond updating a folder that files
>> are created in.
>
> Usually Automator is used to automate the operation of normal Mac 
> applications -- it watches your keystrokes and mouse clicks, and saves 
> them in a script to be repeated. That's what I assumed you were doing.

Automator is the wrong tool for the job.

-- 
E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter.
I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

JR

Back to comp.sys.mac.system | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar

Thread

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

csiph-web