Ok, Tried some things.
Thank you for pointing me to Cron Manager, excellent stuff.
I've set up a Ftp server on the OS 8 mac, using MacSSH, installed Cron Manager.
Any files named appropriately and placed into the "Cron Events Folder" in the System Folder will be launched.
So made a simple "do beep" applescript. make an alias and name "*1" (without quotes of course).
*1 means Cron Manager will open it every minutes, *60 would be every hours.
Got that "*1" alias to a OS X running Mac. From there connected via Ftp to the OS 8 Mac.
Uploaded the "*1" to the "Cron Events Folder"… And after a minute , Cron Manager opens… An empty text file named "*1"
Of course, when I upload the "*1" alias via ftp, it looses his Mac resource forks, and is seen as a text file...
Only way to upload it and keeping these resources is to make it a .sit file.
So made a stuffit archive of a restart applescript also named "*1 .sit" (note the space after 1, I don't think this is necessary…), then uploaded it back into "Cron Events Folder" via ftp. After a minute, it unstuffed the archive and launched the resulting "*1" restart script. So it works
You can launch almost any script remotely like that. The caveat is that it as to be with some more delays than 1 minute, otherwise you end up with xx "*1" files in the "Cron Events Folder" After restart , it unstuffed again "*1 .sit" and again launched the script, so I had to be fast emptying the "Cron Events Folder" .
I think best is to make a file called "*10", so to have 10 minutes of delay, and be able to ftp into the "Cron Events Folder" to delete the files if you need.
Or maybe there is a way to make the script so that it delete any .sit files and move itself out in the "Cron Events Folder" ?...
Thank you for pointing me to Cron Manager, excellent stuff.
I've set up a Ftp server on the OS 8 mac, using MacSSH, installed Cron Manager.
Any files named appropriately and placed into the "Cron Events Folder" in the System Folder will be launched.
So made a simple "do beep" applescript. make an alias and name "*1" (without quotes of course).
*1 means Cron Manager will open it every minutes, *60 would be every hours.
Got that "*1" alias to a OS X running Mac. From there connected via Ftp to the OS 8 Mac.
Uploaded the "*1" to the "Cron Events Folder"… And after a minute , Cron Manager opens… An empty text file named "*1"
Of course, when I upload the "*1" alias via ftp, it looses his Mac resource forks, and is seen as a text file...
Only way to upload it and keeping these resources is to make it a .sit file.
So made a stuffit archive of a restart applescript also named "*1 .sit" (note the space after 1, I don't think this is necessary…), then uploaded it back into "Cron Events Folder" via ftp. After a minute, it unstuffed the archive and launched the resulting "*1" restart script. So it works
You can launch almost any script remotely like that. The caveat is that it as to be with some more delays than 1 minute, otherwise you end up with xx "*1" files in the "Cron Events Folder"
After restart , it unstuffed again "*1 .sit" and again launched the script, so I had to be fast emptying the "Cron Events Folder" .I think best is to make a file called "*10", so to have 10 minutes of delay, and be able to ftp into the "Cron Events Folder" to delete the files if you need.
Or maybe there is a way to make the script so that it delete any .sit files and move itself out in the "Cron Events Folder" ?...