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Thursday, November 17, 2005

An Introduction to Tiger Terminal, Parts 1-5

(links to all parts) In Part 5, Mary Norbury-Glaser looks at how Tiger Mac OS X runs regularly scheduled commands and scripts to execute recurring jobs, like system maintenance and backups. She compares the "old" way, using the Unix tool called cron (for chronological), with the new Tiger method of using the launchd daemon.

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