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Re: 10.4.8 cron / crontab not working after upgrade.

I guess I'm clueless here ... why would you need to add anything to your PATH to make a cron job work?  What's incorrect about the following:

my-ibook:~ srussel2$  crontab -e   ## to edit your own crontab file
## add the following line to make an hourly job
0 * * * * /full/path/to/your/script/you/want/to/run/every/hour

Even though launchd is the preferred method going forward, this "old-style" cron syntax still works.  You may want to do a `man 5 crontab`.

Best wishes,
Scott
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Scott Russell

IT Support Engineer, Distributed Support Services,
      Office of Information Technologies, University of Notre Dame
Instructor of Horn, University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College
Assistant Horn, South Bend Symphony Orchestra

205 DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
574-631-2698

On Feb 16, 2007, at 7:59 PM, Gregor Alessi wrote:

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


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