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cron jobs with launchd

Paul Westbrook | 24 August, 2005 21:12

In this post, I described ClamXav and how it will install a cron job to scan files as well as updating the virus definitions.  In Mac OS X 10.4, Apple has created launchd to replace crond, init, and xinitd.  So I wanted to replace with the cron jobs with Launch Actions.

Here are the plist files that I have created to replace the cron jobs.  I created these plist files with Launchd Editor, I wasn't able to get the scripts to work when I created them with Property List Editor
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Google Talk in Proteus

Paul Westbrook | 24 August, 2005 07:44

I set up Proteus to access the Google Talk IM system.  Google Talk appears a service that is intended to compete with AIM and Yahoo IM.  It uses the Jabber open standard for communication.  The instructions that were posted at TUAW and Make: Blog worked perfectly for Proteus.

I can't tell if Google is allowing communication from Google Talk users with other users of other Jabber servers.  Ideally, they would allow this since this is one of the benefits of using an open standard.

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