[P1] Does the Clock Sleep?

[Larry Kollar]

> And can an iBook--or OSX in general?--really do things while
> *sleeping*?  Cf unix cron jobs run while the computer is on and 
> running,
> not while sleeping, right?

I don't think it can. I tried to get cron to do a huge download 
(OpenOffice)
overnight at work, but it never woke up to do the deed.

Then again, I can't seem to get "at" to do anything either (and yes, 
I've
put "atrun" in root's crontab).

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