Sean,
Thanks for all the info....very helpful!
But everything looks fine....just nothing is running dealing with cron or daily, weekly, monthly scripts as well.
I am using one of the buggy (Late 2004) G5's 1.8ghz machines so that could be an issue as well. Still waiting for Apple to get an SMU Firmware update for these things released. It could be caused by that I am guessing.
I just tried running the 10.4.3 (Combo) update to see if that would fix anything and still no luck. I have tried just about everything.
Thanks,
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Sean M. Kaiser [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Tue 11/15/2005 3:32 PM
To: Ball, Dan
Cc: email@hidden
Subject: Re: Hate launchd miss crontab
>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
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