>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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