[X4U] OK with cron tasks if apps left running?

[Jim Scott]

On Jan 8, 2009, at 4:16 PM, Al Grappone wrote:

>
> On Jan 8, 2009, at 15:35, Jim Scott wrote:
>
>> Check for yourself to see if your system wakes up late at night  
>> (2-3 a.m.) and runs daily, weekly and monthly cron jobs by going  
>> here (Console
>
> Thanks
>
> Here is what I see in console.  Loks like it is doing its job.
>
> 1/8/09 14:27:42 [0x0-0x6ef6ef].com.skype.skype[16391] Starting the  
> process...
> 1/8/09 14:27:42 [0x0-0x6ef6ef].com.skype.skype[16391] Starting the  
> process...
> 1/8/09 14:27:42 [0x0-0x6ef6ef].com.skype.skype[16391] Starting the  
> process...
> 1/8/09 14:27:42 [0x0-0x6ef6ef].com.skype.skype[16391] Starting the  
> process...
> 1/8/09 14:27:42 [0x0-0x6ef6ef].com.skype.skype[16391] Starting the  
> process...
> 1/8/09 14:27:42 [0x0-0x6ef6ef].com.skype.skype[16391] Starting the  
> process...
> 1/8/09 14:27:42 [0x0-0x6ef6ef].com.skype.skype[16391] Starting the  
> process...
> 1/8/09 14:27:42 [0x0-0x6ef6ef].com.skype.skype[16391] Starting the  
> process...
> 1/8/09 14:27:42 [0x0-0x6ef6ef].com.skype.skype[16391] Starting the  
> process...
> 1/8/09 14:27:42 [0x0-0x6ef6ef].com.skype.skype[16391] Starting the  
> process...
> 1/8/09 14:27:42 [0x0-0x6ef6ef].com.skype.skype[16391] Starting the  
> process...
> 1/8/09 14:28:52 com.apple.launchd[115] (0x110830.Locum[16498])  
> Exited: Terminated
> 1/8/09 14:37:45 quicklookd[16538] [QL ERROR] Generator database  
> update takes too long... we will use what we currently have
> 1/8/09 14:47:25 [0x0-0x714714].com.laminar_research.X-Plane[16540]  
> [GW_Plugin]-[INFO ] Starting GW_Plugin
> 1/8/09 14:47:25 [0x0-0x714714].com.laminar_research.X-Plane[16540]  
> [GW_Plugin]-[INFO ] OS Is NOT Case Sensitive
> 1/8/09 14:47:25 [0x0-0x714714].com.laminar_research.X-Plane[16540]  
> Starting thread loader.
> 1/8/09 14:47:25 [0x0-0x714714].com.laminar_research.X-Plane[16540]  
> IO_Scene of 46,10 (async=0) as 0x079bb000
>

No, those are just regular console messages. You need to open Console,  
then go to LOG FILES in the lefthand window, then go to /var/log, then  
go to daily.out or monthly.out or weekly.out. Here's my current  
daily.out that Anacron produced shortly after I turned on my iMac this  
morning:

Thu Jan  8 09:40:06 PST 2009

Removing old log files:

Removing old temporary files:

Cleaning out old system announcements:

Local system status:
  9:40  up 5 mins, 1 user, load averages: 0.10 0.23 0.11

Removing scratch and junk files:

Removing scratch fax files

Checking subsystem status:

disks:
Filesystem   1024-blocks      Used Available Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2   278790144 104066876 174467268    38%    /
/dev/disk0s3    33445164  26971052   6474112    81%    /Volumes/IMACXP
/dev/disk2s2   488050672 368904916 119145756    76%    /Volumes/ 
MiniStack500
/dev/disk1s3   390580272 192187816 198392456    50%    /Volumes/ 
MiniStack400

Last dump(s) done (Dump '>' file systems):

network:
Name  Mtu   Network       Address            Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts  
Oerrs  Coll
lo0   16384 <Link#1>                           193     0      193      
0     0
lo0   16384 localhost   fe80::1                193     -      193      
-     -
lo0   16384 127           localhost            193     -      193      
-     -
lo0   16384 localhost   ::1                    193     -      193      
-     -
gif0* 1280  <Link#2>                             0     0        0      
0     0
stf0* 1280  <Link#3>                             0     0        0      
0     0
en0   1500  <Link#4>    00:1b:63:a3:14:43     2587     0     2286      
0     0
en0   1500  iMac24.loca fe80::21b:63ff:fe     2587     -     2286      
-     -
en0   1500  (16)00:00:b3:ff:4f                2587     0     2286      
0     0
en0   1500  192.168.1     iMac24              2587     -     2286      
-     -
fw0   4078  <Link#5>    00:1d:4f:ff:fe:61:17:0a        0     0         
0     0     0
en1   1500  <Link#6>    00:1c:b3:77:89:5c        0     0        0      
0     0

-- End of daily output --

The beauty of Anacron is that I don't have to do anything. Anacron  
does it for me every time I turn on my iMac. Yes, I could go into  
Terminal and issue commands, but why should I have to learn how to do  
that and spend the time (if I remember) to do it, when Anacron  
automatically does it for me? What's the point of having a GUI  
(graphic user interface) if I have to acquire Deep Geek knowledge and  
skills to do a task that a simple GUI-installed utility will do for  
me? Unless it's proving I'm a geek ... which is unnecessary, at least  
for me.

Jim