Anacron 3.3 is freeware for Mac to perform periodic command scheduling which is traditionally done by cron, but without assuming that the system is running continuously.
What is Anacron 3.3 for Mac?
Anacron runs the periodic daily, weekly and monthly tasks on your Mac even if the machine (a laptop, for example) spends much of its time asleep or switched-off. Anacron silently checks when you reboot and every sixty minutes while the computer is running to see if the various periodic scripts are overdue, and runs them if necessary. The advantage of Anacron over many other solutions to this issue is that it runs as a proper Unix background process, requires no user intervention, and uses the regular periodic scripts.
What's new in this version 3.3?
This version has been updated for Leopard (MacOS 10.5), and should be installed on an upgrade to Leopard or a fresh installation.
Freeware Anacron 3.3 for Mac can be used to control the execution of daily, weekly, and monthly jobs (or anything with a period of n days), on systems that don't run 24 hours a day.
This version of Anacron will run on MacOS 10.5 (Leopard) but it is not needed, as the Leopard launched will run skipped jobs when the machine is next awake.
Anacron 3.3 for Mac has license : Freeware