Re: Running a perl script automatically on Mac OS X 10.5

On Unix systems the common practice is to use cron, and since Mac OS X is Unix based I would guess it's also available on the Mac.

If it is, that would be the way I recommend.

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Re^2: Running a perl script automatically on Mac OS X 10.5 by Fletch (Bishop) on Sep 05, 2008 at 15:41 UTC
Cron does exist, but launchd is the "preferred" mechanism. Automator's probably barking up the wrong tree; that's more of a point-and-drool interface for setting up AppleScript-able events (not that AppleScript wasn't an attempted "ANYONE R PROGRAMR" interface; if that's what you're after though consider Mac::Glue instead). The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie.	[reply]