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CronniX

What is Cronnix?

CronniX is an Aqua frontend to the powerful Unix tool "cron". Cron is a Unix system service that allows scheduled execution of scripts, programs, applications - in short anything that can be started from the command line. This includes OSX applications and AppleScripts.

CronniX and Leopard

CronniX is compatible with OSX 10.5 "Leopard". See the FAQ page for more info.

Feedback

I'm always grateful for feedback about this project. Suggestions, complaints, whatever. Here's my address:

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News

June 20, 2006: CronniX 3.0.2 released

  • Really a Universal binary
  • Fixed homepage URL (Help menu)

June 18, 2006: CronniX 3.0.1 released

  • Intel binary -- I accidentally built it Intel only. If you need a ppc version, please use 3.0 -- there are not other changes. I'll upload a universal version as soon as possible.

June 11, 2005: CronniX 3.0 released

  • Japanese localization including Help by Yuzuru Shiraiwa
  • Catalan localization by Xavier Blanquer
  • Danish localization by Sebastian Adorján Dyhr

Thanks a lot for these translations, CronniX now comes in twelve languages!

December 3, 2004: Czech localization available: Jan Cinert has kindly provided a Czech localization for CronniX. You can get it at his site http://www.macos.kvalitne.cz

October 25, 2004: CronniX 3.0b3 released (beta release)

  • Fixed parsing bug: User column of system crontab was ignored
  • Fixed parsing bug: '=' sign in command string caused tasks to be read in a environment variables
  • Fixed display issue: Info text field was not updated after deletes

October 10, 2004: CronniX 3.0b2 released (beta release)

  • Fixed column resizing in the English version
  • Updated Japanese localization (thanks to Yuzuru Shiraiwa for the update)
  • Updated French localization (thanks to Michaël Ghez, Claude Tamone, Damien Bobillot for their contributions. I've included Damien's translations as it was the latest -- in order to prevent folks from independently translating CronniX please always check back with me if there's an updated localized variant that's not released yet. There have been several occasions where I had to choose between translations and believe me there's little justice I can do your fine work with most of the languages you translate CronniX to :))
  • Included all remaining localizations

October 6, 2004: CronniX 3.0b1 released (beta release)

  • New crontab parsing: preserving unknown/unparsable content
  • Drag and drop of tasks and environment variables (within CronniX and cross applications)
  • Note that this is a beta release. It works for me and passes the test suite but being careful doesn't hurt :)

August 18, 2003: Moved this site to its new home at abstracture.de. It's the same product, just a different name tag on it.

May 17, 2003: Added French (by Alain von Weissenfluh), Spanish (by Jorge, Victor Manuel, and Paulo Nascimento), and Swedish (by Jonas Barrestam) localization. Thanks a lot for localizing CronniX!

March 11, 2003: Added Dutch (by Henk Tukkers, incl. Help!) and Portuguese (by Paulo Nascimento) localization. 2.1 Disk images now include English, Dutch (incl Help), German, Japanese, and Portuguese resources.

The download page also lists 2.0.2 images and which languages they support.

March 2, 2003 CronniX 2.1 released

  • Added crontab import/export
  • Larger, multi line command text field in the Task dialog
  • Added grey frame to the "Any" checkbox section of the Task dialog to better seperate it
  • Bugfix: month and mday would not keep '*' when typed in the edit fields of the Task dialog
  • Default user for system crontab tasks is now "root" instead of "system"

January 31, 2003: Disk images include German, Japanese, and Welsh resources

The downloadable disk images now include the German, Japanese, and Welsh resources. If you use one of those languages as your main language you don't need to fiddle with the separate resource downloads.

January 30, 2003: Donations accepted

Now don't panic, CronniX is not going to be crippleware or nagware or any kind of not-real-freeware. See the Donate section for details on the why and how or decide to ignore this news item and keep using CronniX as you have.

January 29, 2003: Japanese localization available thanks to E-WA

Download: Japanese.lproj disk image. See the Welsh localization news item below for installation instructions.

January 27, 2003: Welsh localization available thanks to Lloyd Smart

Installation: Get the Welsh.lproj disk image and mount it. Right (or control) click on CronniX in the Finder and select 'Show Package Contents'. Go to 'Contents'. Copy the mountet 'Welsh.lproj' folder into the CronniX 'Resources' folder by holding the option key and dropping the mounted image in the 'Resources' folder. Restart CronniX to get the Welsh version.

January 23, 2003: German localization available

Laden Sie sich das German.lproj Disk Image herunter. Um es zu installieren, rechts-klicken Sie auf CronniX 2 und wählen Sie 'Paketinhalt anzeigen'. Öffnen Sie den 'Contents' Ordner und ziehen Sie das gemountete 'German.lproj' Volume bei drückter Wahltaste auf den 'Resources'-Ordner. Nach einen Neustart von CronniX erscheint das Programm in deutschem Gewand.

Die Hilfe ist in dieser Version noch nicht übersetzt. Der geneigte Leser fühle sich dazu ermuntert, diesen Zustand zu ändern!

(Translators, please provide installation instructions in your language as I've just run out of languages :-)

As soon as there are more translations, I will bundle them in another minor release.

January 20, 2003: Found and fixed

The system crontab crash has been found and fixed in version 2.0.2. Really :-)

January 20, 2003: Sytem crontab woes

My claim that 2.0.1 fixes the crashing bug when opening the system crontab was premature. I still get user reports that CronniX unexpectedly quits. The really strange thing is that CronniX seems to always crash on your machines while it (almost) never crashes on two of my machines. I have actually seen the crash but I can't reliably reproduce it.

I've actually had a friend who's been crashing reliably start a debugging session only to find out that the crashes went away once the debugger (successfully) stepped through the offending methods. I have drawn some conclusions from that but it hasn't brought me much closer to actually solving (or even understanding) the problem yet.

For the time being I have added the 1.5.1 binaries in the downloads section again. I will try to fix this problem as soon as possible.

January 19, 2003: Version 2.0.1 released. See the Release Notes for details

November 8, 2002: Help bug info:

There's still a problem with CronniX Help. While I fixed Help for Jaguar in CronniX 1.5.1, I broke it for Puma systems (10.1.x). I will fix Help for both OS verions in 2.0. Until then, please download CronniX 1.5 for 10.1.x and CronniX 1.5.1 for Jaguar.

Please note: the two versions differ only in how they handle help.

September 27, 2002: Version 1.5.1 released

New features:

  • Fixed Help bug under OS X 10.2 Jaguar. The online help would not show after selecting the Help menu item.

June 24, 2002: Version 1.5 source released under GPL

I've been promising this for quite a while now but it's taken quite some time to wrap this up. Note that these are the sources for the latest release version. CronniX has progressed quite a bit on its way to 2.0 in the meantime, but this version is not ready for public release yet. I am considering releasing a beta version "soon" (as in "freeware-soon" :-).

There's also a new "Samples/Hints" section where I post sample crontab entries. I rely on user input on this one!