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Fingers

Sep 18, 2002 22:23

I am now very close to being able to post to MovableType and have an excerpt of my entry show up automatically on LJ. The cron business is all worked out* -- all that remains is to get the blagg author to work out a minor bug in his script. Stay tuned ( Read more... )

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tgape May 18 2003, 17:21:04 UTC

Traditional cron, as supplied by most non-Linux unicies, have no mechanism for determining what a user's path is. This is due to a combination of not being in the user's parent process chain, and being written by coders more concerned with getting basic functionality working by 1976 at the latest. There are at least three freeware cron drop-in replacements which fix this issue. The only reason I can come up with for Apple not using one of them is undue BSD influence. (Given that MacOS 9 is about as far removed from BSD as can be imagined, I don't really understand this ( ... )