Crontab is a frontend program for the cron deamon - that's the one that has to be running. You can tell whether it is by doing ps aux | grep cron. On Linux the deamon is usually called crond, on a Mac I've got access to, it's simply called cron.

On Linux (the flavors I know) you put a startup script in /etc/init.d/, on Mac this should be handled by launchd, launchctl is used for the control over this demon.

Can't tell you much more, my knowledge of Mac is very limited. Search the web, read the docs, wait for more replies...

Hope that helps

In reply to Re^3: Cron on Mac OS X by pjotrik
in thread Cron on Mac OS X by Ninth Prince

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