Thread-topic: 10.4.8 cron / crontab not working after upgrade.
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I am using this one of Dan's postings as I did not see my last post go
through to the list indicating that this is fixed for me.
1. I upgraded from 10.3.5 to 10.4.8.
2. All my cron tasks were moved to launchd except the hourly one I had
added before the upgrade.
3. launchd does not have an hourly setup by default and a number of files
would have to be changed to support it. I decided to continue using cron for
this function. I turned off all the daily, weekly, monthly in the crontab
file and just left the hourly.
4. I found the crontab.applesaved which had the line lines :
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/scripts:/usr/local/scripts
HOME=/var/log
They were not in the crontab file created by the upgrade, so I added them.
5. As soon as I added the lines the hourly schedule started to work. I
think periodic needed the three environment variable to know were to find
every thing you want to do.
So this issues is closed form me.
Hope this helps others.
On 2/18/07 1:24 PM, "Dan Shoop" wrote:
> At 1:59 AM +0100 2/17/07, 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.
>
> Because
>
> a) You wanted the bash shell
>
> b) you wanted to specify a PATH environment variable (with some funky places)
>
> c) you wanted to define a HOME environment variable to be someplace specific
>
> None of the above are necessary but you must realize that processes
> run off cron do not inherit *your* user environment, they aren't you
> logged in.
>
>> i believe, scripts should be placed in /usr/local
>
> They can be where ever you source them as being
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John Zigrang
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