Re: [PLUG] cron/launchctl problems in MAC OS

Thanks. Yeah, that's it. I turned off "sleep"ing, and now the scheduled jobs run as expected. I'll look into the link below, but until then, I'll probably just not sleep, and turn on the computer the day it's required (not a high use computer). It's a desktop, so no real power/battery concerns.

From: "Alexander Kohr" <Alexander.Kohr@fccc.edu>
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Subject: Re: [PLUG] cron/launchctl problems in MAC OS

With Launchd

Your computer sleeping for 15 minutes sounds like it is definitely the problem.

If you job could not run because the computer was asleep it will run when the computer wakes up. If the machine is powered off it won't run until the next designated time frame.

info at https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPSystemStartup/Chapters/ScheduledJobs.html

If it really must run at the time you want it to run instead of when the computer is being used, Change your sleep settings using either the Energy Saver control panel or via pmset command line utility. If it is a laptop you should probably only ever set it to not go to sleep when you are on Charger or UPS. And/or you might invoke some scheduled start up or wake commands or sleep commands to occure slightly before and or well after your scheduled runs.

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On Nov 5, 2015, at 7:39 PM, Gregory Deal wrote:

Well the Mac is definitely set to sleep after 15 minutes. And when it does awake, like when I hit a key, it's back running within a minute. So could this still be causing tasks to start 20 minutes or more late? Thanks.

From: "Isaac Bennetch" <bennetch@gmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, November 5, 2015 4:51:46 PM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] cron/launchctl problems in MAC OS

On Nov 5, 2015, at 3:16 PM, Gregory Deal <1deal@comcast.net> wrote:

I recently tried to switch over to launchctl on my Mac Mini (10.7.5) from cron on a PC. I searched and think I have things set up right, but it seems that the scheduled script starts significantly after the requested time. Details at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32829026/using-launched-and-plist-starts-late. I would appreciate any guidance, insight, or things to try. Thanks.

Are you sure the Mac isn't going to sleep? If it does, IIRC the task will run when it wakes up.

Also, unrelated to your apparent problem but a point of frustration for me that took a while to track down: if your job runs too quickly, launchctl doesn't like this and tries to restart it again immediately, causing...problems.

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