[P1] Power ON or OFF

[Barry Lyden]

By default, on my iBook at least, cron runs the daily script at 3:15am 
each day, the weekly script at 4:30am every Saturday, and the monthly 
script on the first day of each month at 5:30am.

Check out the man pages for specifics on what each script runs
man cron
man crontab

The files and scripts are at:
/etc/crontab
/etc/daily
/etc/weekly
/etc/monthly

Or do a google search on any of the above commands and files and you'll 
get lots of detail.

Finally, you can forget all this and use a 3rd party utility like those 
that Brian recommended, if you prefer (Cocktail or MacJanitor).

Barry


On Sunday, August 31, 2003, at 07:03  PM, Pat D. Stephens wrote:

> As I sent that question off, I realized the answer, but thanks for the 
> info.  Now, does the program run on a specific day of the week?  If 
> so, I can just make it a habit to leave it open that one night every 
> week.  Haven't I seen something about it running on Wednesday?
>
> Pat
> On Sunday, August 31, 2003, at 06:40 PM, Barry Lyden wrote:
>
>> BTW - the cron jobs that run at night (daily, weekly, monthly) can be 
>> edited to run at a time when your iBook isn't likely to be sleeping 
>> if it's more convenient for you.
>
>
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