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Lingon - Use a GUI to create recurring events
Authored by: Dr. T on Mon, Apr 21 2008 at 10:55AM PDT

What is the advantage to using Lingon versus scheduling events with Automator/AppleScript and iCal? For system-related timed or repeated tasks, I just log onto my admin account (to keep those tasks off my regular calendar) and set up the events in iCal.

Lingon - Use a GUI to create recurring events
Authored by: nmerriam on Mon, Apr 21 2008 at 12:13PM PDT

launchd (like cron) doesn't require a user to be logged on in order for tasks to be run.