When you refer to cron tasks, do you mean something other than the daily, weekly, monthly scripts under /etc? Because those will absolutely fire while you're still logged in, as long as the machine's awake. Every so often I'll go looking for a reason that the fan in my powerbook is persistently spun up and I'll discover that the weekly task is rebuilding the locate database.
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RE: Log Out! (Once Per Day) (by Seth Dillingham at 1/28/2006)
On 1/28/06, Nat Irons said: >When you refer to cron tasks, do you mean something other than the >daily,
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Re: Log Out! (Once Per Day) (by Brian Carnell at 1/28/2006)
Seth, the update link at the bottom of this post just links back to this post, and not to your new post
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RE: Log Out! (Once Per Day) (by Nat Irons at 1/28/2006)
It's news to me that 10.4 will go back and catch up missed cron tasks. That's really interesting. My
