Advanced Mac OS X, scheduled tasks

[leez]

Hi. Is there any software, which can tell me what is going on in my system at a specific time durning the day? Something like a schedule planner for all the apps installed, system processes etc (which program at which time is checking for update, when spotlight is indexing etc)... or maybe not so scientific-detailed log, but saying "this app at this time checked for update". Would be very useful for me. Thanks.

PS.
I know, that Cron handles this, but everything ? How can I see what it does ?

File /etc/crontab is empty.

 

[new.chaos]

Hi. Is there any software, which can tell me what is going on in my system at a specific time durning the day? Something like a schedule planner for all the apps installed, system processes etc (which program at which time is checking for update, when spotlight is indexing etc)... or maybe not so scientific-detailed log, but saying "this app at this time checked for update". Would be very useful for me. Thanks.

PS.
I know, that Cron handles this, but everything ? How can I see what it does ?

File /etc/crontab is empty.

Look at /etc/periodic

localhost% man 8 periodic

Cheers,

EDIT: I re-read your message and I think you are looking for schedules, and I assume you're running Leopard. Well in Tiger (Panther too I believe) crontab used to kick off the periodic scripts. Now in Leopard they moved that to launchd. If you want to see the schedules, examine the following files:

/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.periodic-daily.plist
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.periodic-monthly.plist
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.periodic-weekly.plist

Somewhere down the file in the <dict></dict> tags you will see the schedule.