[Ti] Your PB and night

[b]

Kim Gammelgaard paused, thought it over, and spoke thusly:

>  > Or open Terminal, and at the prompt, type:
>>
>>  periodic  -daily  -weekly  -monthly     <hit return>  usually
>>  finished in a couple seconds.
>>
>>  ~flipper
>
>This of course didn't make any sense, to run the jobs without doing a sudo,
>which is why I kept hunting the reason why you could post it.
>
>I think I will stick that alias into my .tcrsh-files too, as it seems an
>easy way of doing things. (if I can remember that I did it ;-) )
>
>Cheers,
>
>Kim

yes, and I don't login as root very much, only in Terminal, for 
specific tasks, which occur less frequently.

The thing is, it IS easy to forget to run the periodic. CRON only 
remembers because it is always open, always checking the 
clock/calendar to see if it is 'time' yet. Which is sort of like 
being a kid and asking every minute, day and night, "Is it 
lunchtime?" ... and then knowing it's time to eat because on one out 
of 1440 occasions the answer wasn't, "No."  Aren't computers 
brilliant?

Of course any user can run scripts that trigger at chosen specific or 
recurring times, using cron, also. Little Unix-only things like 
collecting certain updated files, copying them, mailing them to a 
list, on some particular afternoon ( all automated)... whatever.  The 
fact that any process or application , in Unix, can have its output 
become the 'next' app's 'input', and on and on and on, is the main 
reason Unix is so nimble and powerful, at the same time. And it is 
reliable almost beyond belief... hey, it's like the exact opposite of 
NT Workstation.. <laughs>

~flipper