[Pythonmac-SIG] @reboot

[Jim Allman]

On May 27, 2005, at 5:11 AM, Mario Ruggier wrote:
> Cannot tell where the problem is... The system.log contains the
> following potentially relevant lines:
> May 27 10:47:15 localhost SystemStarter: Initializing network
> May 27 10:47:15 localhost cron[176]: (*system*) PARSE (bad username)
>
> Any ideas?

Mario,

I believe that cron runs as a different effective user (root?), even 
for tasks in your personal crontab. Also, it doesn't have quite the 
same environment vars that you'd normally have in the shell. I've had 
trouble calling Growl (OS X notification) popups from cron for this 
reason.

You might try writing an executable shell script to launch svn, then 
putting it in the /Library/StartupItems. Yeah, it looks like someone's 
already doing this:
	http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2004-05/1140.shtml

Good luck!

   =jimA=

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