Cronnix Use

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? ...

For people looking to schedule things, there is a gret cron GUI called CronniX. I use it to download movie infi into my palm at 3am every day. I have a perl script called showtimes which downloads movie info from yahoo. ...

I use CronniX for this. ...

Honestly, I use CronniX to edit my crontab files, but I wanted to know how to do it from the Terminal, so this is more of a learning excercise. ...

Alternatively you can use an application like CronniX, instead of the Terminal, to add the line to the system crontab. ...

You could also use QuicKeys quite easily for this - it is a good app for the less than Gurus among us. It can also call Applescripts or visa verce (how do you spell that?). In the mean time, I'm going to check out CronnIX!!! Thanks NeYo! I am bound and determined to have my Mac read "meaning speak" my new mail to me each morning and this has been a real pain to do with...

these are doing, whether it needs to be done, and how often. In addition, CCCloner, for example will check permissions before it begins its nightly backup. With CronniX you can schedule any of these. ...

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

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...

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. ...