CronniX

Sorry I'm not familiar with where Cronnix puts its files, so I can't advise you on what to look for. ...

I've got a shell script that runs fine if I drop it onto a terminal window, it also runs if I tell Cronnix to "Run Now", but doesn't run at all when I tell CronniX to run it at a set time. I imagine that it's because Terminal and the Run Now command in CronniX use tcsh and cron doesn't... Anyone know a way around this? ...

shoot this should be in Darwin I guess, even though it really is a cronniX question... ...

CronniX will let you edit the system (root's) crontab. You can get it here: http://www.koch-schmidt.de/cronnix/ To change when the system runs its optimization routines, choose File>Open System Crontab. Enter your adminstrator password and then change the values to something similar to what is pictured here:

no I didn't, then again, I could not do much about it (I do more PHP than anything else). That's however, great to know as this type of apps are so truly handy (I should have also mentioned Cronnix which I used to grab movie info every day at 3am and write it to palm pdbs - crontab GUI)

downloaded Cronnix and setup cron task to run. Nothing happened when the set time rolled around. ...

then setup CronniX to run it for you automatically. ...

sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. Use cron to change the permissions of the folder and it's contents every 15 minutes. In the term, type... sudo vi /etc/crontab type in your admin passwd... type in this line at the bottom of the cron file...