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crontab to wake osx from sleep

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Mar 15, 202643101 views
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I have a crontab which will launch a certain program early in the morning (after I have gone to sleep) and close it again later in the morning (before I wake up). But my iMac will not execute the crontab script while it is asleep. I see there is some preferences to wake the machine up and make it s…

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Fix for: crontab to wake osx from sleep

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doesn't execute while the computer is asleep, so there's no way for you to have a crontab entry to wake the computer. That said you can schedule the computer to wake just a minute or two before your cron task in Preferences >> Energy Saver >> Schedu…

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