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 16:25:20 -0500
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Title: Re: 10.4.8 cron / crontab not working after
upgrade.
At 11:05 PM -0500 2/16/07, Scott Russell wrote:
I guess I'm clueless here ... why would
you need to add anything to your PATH to make a cron job
work?
Because his jobs rather sillily expect a specific, funky
PATH.
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
Nothing, and is how it would much better be expressed.
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`.
Only if you use cron ;)
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