Hello I'm trying to make my first cron job.

I'm completely new to any type of programming and have never posted on any forum before so I hope this makes sense. I have Mac OS X 10.5.8.

My goal is to run my applescript program called beatrice.app at 9:30 pm every night. My app is located on the desktop of my computer. All the app does is open a website in chrome.

This is my code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.apple.beatrice</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>cd</string>
<string>MacintoshHD/Users/samantha/Desktop/beatrice.app;</string>
</array>
<key>QueueDirectories</key>
<array/>
<key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
<dict>
<key>Hour</key>
<integer>21</integer>
<key>Minute</key>
<integer>30</integer>
</dict>
<key>WatchPaths</key>
<array/>
</dict>
</plist>

I saved this file under /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.beatrice.plist

Afterwards I went to the command line and wrote sudo launchctl load
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.beatrice.plist

But nothing happens at 9:30pm

Please help.
Samantha

this probably should go in the other *nix/*bsd subforum.

i am not sure what apple script is but based on your post above it is nothing like bash script so i dont think it is cron-able. xml is not an executable format, it is a mark-up language and relies on something like a web browser to render it.

if macs have cron (i beleive they do), try something like::wq would write-quit out of vi.

man crontab for more info.

Thank you for the direction in posting.

You might get more help at this site:

http://developer.apple.com/library/m...reatingLaunchd

More Into:

http://www.lowfokus.com/2009/11/15/cron-jobs-on-os-x/