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Lingon and launchd can keep crucial apps always running

by TJ Luoma (Oct 30th, 2012)

Two years ago I wrote about a shell script that I used with cron to keep 'critical' applications running. Some of the commenters suggested that I "should" be using launchd. There are times when I still prefer cron over launchd but there are two reasons why I have started using launchd more often. ...

Terminally Geeky: use automatic login more securely

by TJ Luoma (Mar 7th, 2011)

Imagine if you rebooted your computer, and it automatically logged you in, launched all of your login apps, updated your Dropbox folder, MobileMe, email, RSS, Twitter and everything else without you even having to enter your password. That auto-login capability is built into your Mac, and in fact, ...

Manually schedule Software Update 'the OS X way' with launchd

by Brett Terpstra (Jan 10th, 2010)

In response to a Macworld article, TidBits' Chris Pepper elaborated on ways to run Software Update, Apple's means of delivering updates and patches, on your own schedule. Beginning with the fact that Software Update schedules its next update based on the time it's currently being run, setting the ...

Automatically restart crashed programs

by Mat Lu (Apr 24th, 2007)

Over at Macworld Rob Griffiths has a great column on automatically restarting a program after a crash. Although it is much more stable these days, for a while last year Quicksilver was constantly crashing on me and often I wouldn't notice until ? + space was strangely unavailing. If there's any ...