>Hi everyone,
>
>With our 10.3.9 image like everyone I used crontab to scheadule scripts
>to run. Now with 10.4.3 I tried putting this same info back into
>/etc/crontab and crontab -e and they still wont run.
>
>I checked the daily.out script and it hasn't run since May of 05, which
>was when I last worked on our 10.4.x image waiting for a bug to be fixed
>which came with 10.4.3.
>
>I pulled the info back out of the crontabs and just let the machine sit
>and let the launchd run the default daily script and it never ran it. So
>its not working now. Any ideas on why daily isn't running now?
>
>Crontab:
># /etc/crontab
>SHELL=/bin/sh
>PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
>HOME=/var/log
>#
>#minute hour mday month wday who command
>#
>#*/5 * * * * root /usr/libexec/atrun
>#
># Run daily/weekly/monthly jobs.
>52 22 * * * root periodic daily
>54 22 * * 6 root periodic weekly
>56 22 1 * * root periodic monthly
>57 22 1 * * root /sbin/startRemoveCaches
>58 22 1 * * root /sbin/startRemoveMCXCaches
>00 23 * * * root /sbin/startshutdown
>
>Thanks,
>
>Dan Ball
Dan,
Make sure that cron is loaded into launchd. My backup server runs about
50-60 individual processes, and I don't want to create that many launchd
configs, so I'm using the crontab with very good results.
To check if launchd knows about cron:
sudo launchctl list
You want to see com.vix.cron in the list. If it's not, then you need to
load it:
sudo launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.vix.cron.plist
If your machine complains about the com.vix.cron.plist file (like it's not
there or anything), this is what mine looks like (the default version):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
"http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";>
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.vix.cron</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/usr/sbin/cron</string>
</array>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>
<key>WatchPaths</key>
<array>
<string>/etc/crontab</string>
</array>
<key>QueueDirectories</key>
<array>
<string>/var/cron/tabs</string>
</array>
</dict>
</plist>
To then start it:
sudo launchctl start com.vix.cron
Maybe this will help. I've never had to do this, but maybe my setup is
different than yours.
Sean Kaiser
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
Client-management mailing list (email@hidden)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/client-management/email@hidden
This email sent to email@hidden
