Re^2: Cron on Mac OS X

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Re^3: Cron on Mac OS X by pjotrik (Friar) on Sep 09, 2008 at 16:18 UTC
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	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Cron on Mac OS X by Ninth Prince (Acolyte) on Sep 09, 2008 at 16:42 UTC
Okay, I've tried the command that you suggested and this is what I got. `root 6217 0.0 0.0 76480 656 ?? Ss Fri12PM 0:00.06 + /usr/sbin/cron myname 7219 0.0 0.0 75960 340 s000 R+ 11:36AM 0:00.00 +grep cron` [download] I apologize for being so UNIX wimpy. I'm not sure, exactly, what this is telling me.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Cron on Mac OS X by JadeNB (Chaplain) on Sep 09, 2008 at 17:18 UTC
The first line is telling you that `cron` is indeed running. (The second is telling you that you were looking for the first line, and can be ignored.) That makes it very strange that you should not be getting any response when `crontab -l` admits that it knows about your crontab file.	[reply] [d/l] [select]