Comments on: Crontab Under Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) http://www.wickedlush.com/blog/2007/11/08/crontab-under-mac-os-x-105-leopard/ a plethora of favonian deipnosophy for your delectation, inspiration and education... Sat, 23 Jan 2010 05:18:44 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Setting up cron / launchd on OS X 10.5? | Wulf http://www.wickedlush.com/blog/2007/11/08/crontab-under-mac-os-x-105-leopard/comment-page-1/#comment-135 Setting up cron / launchd on OS X 10.5? | Wulf Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:54:00 +0000 http://www.wickedlush.com/blog/2007/11/08/crontab-under-mac-os-x-105-leopard/#comment-135 [...] set up a cron job to daily-sync everything at some ungodly hour in the morning, but to my surprise OS X 10.5 does not support cron! I’ve tried setting up launchd plists to get it syncing, but am having exactly zero luck. I [...] [...] set up a cron job to daily-sync everything at some ungodly hour in the morning, but to my surprise OS X 10.5 does not support cron! I’ve tried setting up launchd plists to get it syncing, but am having exactly zero luck. I [...]

]]> By: wickedlush http://www.wickedlush.com/blog/2007/11/08/crontab-under-mac-os-x-105-leopard/comment-page-1/#comment-116 wickedlush Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:48:00 +0000 http://www.wickedlush.com/blog/2007/11/08/crontab-under-mac-os-x-105-leopard/#comment-116 Not *another* thing to learn...? Brain's full :-) OK - here's one of many good resources online: http://www.macgeekery.com/tips/all_about_launchd_items_and_how_to_make_one_yourself Thanks, all Not *another* thing to learn…? Brain’s full :-)

OK – here’s one of many good resources online:

http://www.macgeekery.com/tips/all_about_launchd_items_and_how_to_make_one_yourself

Thanks, all

]]> By: Tyler http://www.wickedlush.com/blog/2007/11/08/crontab-under-mac-os-x-105-leopard/comment-page-1/#comment-114 Tyler Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:40:17 +0000 http://www.wickedlush.com/blog/2007/11/08/crontab-under-mac-os-x-105-leopard/#comment-114 You shouldn't use cron anymore. It was deprecated in 10.4 Tiger and superseded by launchd. You shouldn’t use cron anymore. It was deprecated in 10.4 Tiger and superseded by launchd.

]]> By: Asteroid » Blog Archive » Backing up a 1&1 root server http://www.wickedlush.com/blog/2007/11/08/crontab-under-mac-os-x-105-leopard/comment-page-1/#comment-113 Asteroid » Blog Archive » Backing up a 1&1 root server Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:59:46 +0000 http://www.wickedlush.com/blog/2007/11/08/crontab-under-mac-os-x-105-leopard/#comment-113 [...] to me, doing an “upgrade” install of Leopard empties out the crontabs of all users, stashing copies in /var/cron/tabs. This deactivates your jobs without warning. This means that the [...] [...] to me, doing an “upgrade” install of Leopard empties out the crontabs of all users, stashing copies in /var/cron/tabs. This deactivates your jobs without warning. This means that the [...]

]]> By: wickedlush http://www.wickedlush.com/blog/2007/11/08/crontab-under-mac-os-x-105-leopard/comment-page-1/#comment-112 wickedlush Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:03:11 +0000 http://www.wickedlush.com/blog/2007/11/08/crontab-under-mac-os-x-105-leopard/#comment-112 Thanks, James! Thanks, James!

]]> By: James http://www.wickedlush.com/blog/2007/11/08/crontab-under-mac-os-x-105-leopard/comment-page-1/#comment-111 James Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:20:09 +0000 http://www.wickedlush.com/blog/2007/11/08/crontab-under-mac-os-x-105-leopard/#comment-111 In case you haven't figured it out yet, the new crontabs are in /usr/lib/cron/tabs In case you haven’t figured it out yet, the new crontabs are in /usr/lib/cron/tabs

]]> By: Jacques Distler http://www.wickedlush.com/blog/2007/11/08/crontab-under-mac-os-x-105-leopard/comment-page-1/#comment-65 Jacques Distler Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:22:15 +0000 http://www.wickedlush.com/blog/2007/11/08/crontab-under-mac-os-x-105-leopard/#comment-65 I was hoping you were gonna tell me. Then I was hoping you were going to explain the proliferation of messages like: Nov 9 16:20:00 golem com.apple.launchd[1] (0x11e900.cron[10402]): Could not setup Mach task special port 9: (os/kern) no access in my system logs. I was hoping you were gonna tell me.

Then I was hoping you were going to explain the proliferation of messages like:

Nov 9 16:20:00 golem com.apple.launchd[1] (0×11e900.cron[10402]): Could not setup Mach task special port 9: (os/kern) no access

in my system logs.

]]> By: wickedlush http://www.wickedlush.com/blog/2007/11/08/crontab-under-mac-os-x-105-leopard/comment-page-1/#comment-64 wickedlush Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:33:06 +0000 http://www.wickedlush.com/blog/2007/11/08/crontab-under-mac-os-x-105-leopard/#comment-64 Thank you, Jacques - that is interesting... I can see that /var/cron/tabs/ does indeed contain my old files, but I have since created new (and slightly different) crontabs - do you know where the new crontabs are stored? Thank you, Jacques – that is interesting… I can see that /var/cron/tabs/ does indeed contain my old files, but I have since created new (and slightly different) crontabs – do you know where the new crontabs are stored?

]]> By: Jacques Distler http://www.wickedlush.com/blog/2007/11/08/crontab-under-mac-os-x-105-leopard/comment-page-1/#comment-63 Jacques Distler Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:36:09 +0000 http://www.wickedlush.com/blog/2007/11/08/crontab-under-mac-os-x-105-leopard/#comment-63 Not strictly true. All your crontab files are still there in /var/cron/tabs/ . They're just no longer USED. Not strictly true. All your crontab files are still there in /var/cron/tabs/ . They’re just no longer USED.

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