Looking for scheduled reboot utility

[John8520]

Hey all,
Years ago I had a utility for scheduling reboots in system 7, 8, and 9 - the sort of thing you might run on a file server, for example. I'm trying to find it but I'm coming up empty handed. I've looked at Cron Manager, but I don't like it, and I know for sure it's not the utility I used back in the day.

Thanks!

 

[Cory5412]

I would also like recommendations on this, if anyone has a line on it.

 

[Admiral Ackbar]

Hey all,
Years ago I had a utility for scheduling reboots in system 7, 8, and 9 - the sort of thing you might run on a file server, for example. I'm trying to find it but I'm coming up empty handed. I've looked at Cron Manager, but I don't like it, and I know for sure it's not the utility I used back in the day.

Thanks!

necro-bump.
Did you ever get a solution for this?
Thanks.

 

[dcr]

KeepItUp would "click" dialog windows to prevent a server from being paused while waiting on a keypress. I think it would also reboot the machine. I don't remember if it did any kind of scheduled rebooting.

I do remember scheduled reboot utilities, but can't recall any names at the moment. But didn't later OS versions have it built-in? Maybe 7.5 or 8? I'm thinking maybe in the Power control panel?

 

[LaPorta]

Can’t you just set it to start up at a certain time? Why do you need to scheduled restarts?

 

[finkmac]

Can’t you just set it to start up at a certain time? Why do you need to scheduled restarts?

prolly 'cause classic MacOS is not exactly stable. restarts can do it good.

 

[John8520]

prolly 'cause classic MacOS is not exactly stable. restarts can do it good.

Yeah, that's pretty much exactly why I was looking. But no, I never found a solution. Maybe applescript could be used.

 

[Cory5412]

That's basically it. OS9 stability is assisted massively by regular reboots. Most period resources recommended a literal daily reboot for anybody running their machines full-time, and many use cases recommended reboots between running different tasks.

In my case - on a bunch of my machines if 9 runs for a long time it loses the ability to shutdown/reboot, it'll just stall out on the desktop and need to be rebooted with the hardware reset switch.

 

[mikes-macs]

I'm remembering back when everyone wanted to list the uptime of their Mac in chatrooms and forums. Meanwhile I was constantly rebooting mine to get a stable running system. Seems like so long ago. Maybe it was.

BTW try this it may help. https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/mac-restart-0