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Re: 10.4.8 cron / crontab not working after upgrade.

Hi
On 16.02.2007, at 20:00, David 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? 

Jaime Magiera wrote:

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 

On Feb 16, 2007, at 12:56 PM, Jeremy Bush wrote:
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 

cron is supported in 10.4 but no crontab is setup by default (launchd
is used instead, as explained).

Just recreate the crontab entries you need, or learn about launchd and
go with that instead.


in 10.4 i had to add

SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/scripts:/usr/local/scripts
HOME=/var/log

to my crontabs to get my scripts running.
i believe, scripts should be placed in /usr/local


hth

Gregor



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