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Re: 10.4.8 cron / crontab not working after upgrade.



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Jaime Magiera wrote:
> 
> On Feb 16, 2007, at 11:44 AM, John Zigrang wrote:
> 
>> I have an hourly task that was working in 10.3.5, but after an upgrade
>> its
>> not work. The man indicated that crontab should be in /etc and my is in
>> /priviate/etc.
>>
>> Does this need to be moved?
> 
> No. Actually, your problem is somewhat different. In 10.4, the new
> method for running scheduled tasks is launchd. For more info...
> 
> man launchd
> 
> man launchctl
> 
> http://developer.apple.com/macosx/launchd.html
> 

My cron jobs work on 10.4 =/

/etc/ is just a link to /private/etc, btw.

lrwxr-xr-x    1 root   admin       11 May 17  2005 etc -> private/etc

Jeremy Bush
Image Management LLC
http://www.imagemanagement.com
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