CronniX

e before but I'm not entirely proficient in it so I use cronnix which does the same job, just cocoaized. And that part about alarm.pl is exactly what I wanted to know. ...

into cronnix so how do I make it work? ...

It works great in every respect, however, I would like to run .php files with cron and have tried using cronnix to do this but have had no luck. ...

I've noticed that there is quite a collection of third-party Cocoa-only GUIs for UNIX applications. I think this is a very positive development for MacOS. I'll like to hear what UNIX applications people are using via Cocoa GUIs. Here's my list: CronniX - cron GUI vcdtools - just downloaded, don't know anything about VCDs eFax - GUI for UNIX fax tools ManOpen - man GUI with...

before syncing. Now with CronniX and OS X, my Mac simply makes new .pdb files everyday while I sleep. ...

What you need CronniX Desktop Randomizer both are available at Versiontracker Read the CronniX help to understand the timing syntax (i.e */5 means every five minutes). Desktop Randomizer should be ran once manually to set up the preferences. Apple: please make the set as desktop function a service.

The problem turned out to be the crontab setting the PATH variable so that it didn't include a path to mysqldump. I was using cronnix to manipulate the crontab and just didn't realise what else was happening at the start of the crontab. ...

Go to www.versiontracker.com and search for cron CronniX is a nice little GUI to edit cron jobs And there is a program to deal with the sleep issues but it looked like to much of a hassle.

Yes, I discovered that earlier today when I downloaded CronniX and there's a menu option to drop the path into cron. ...

I have never used them but my understanding is that cron jobs you can set events or scripts to run at certain times, Cronnix is a GUI front end for Cron so you don't have to do the CLI