Re: 10.4.8 cron / crontab not working after upgrade.

• Subject: Re: 10.4.8 cron / crontab not working after upgrade.
• From: Dan Shoop <email@hidden>
• Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 16:20:46 -0500
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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 =/

Yes, you have cron  enabled through launchd.
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-dhan

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