in reply to Re^2: Cron on Mac OS X
in thread Cron on Mac OS X

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

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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

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    I apologize for being so UNIX wimpy. I'm not sure, exactly, what this is telling me.

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      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.
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