[jgift]

Hi, I have my own cron file set up and it won't run the items mentioned even though they are correct. I'm sure it' a question os permissions on the file itself but can't figure out what I did last setup to have it running. Help appreciated. Thanks!

[bracken]

What's the cron file, and what user owns it? Have you tried repairing the permissions?

[jgift]

The cron file is where you list in Unix programs to run at specific times. It's a question of the right file in the wrong place I think.

[viperstrike]

Are you sure the cron daemon is running?

[jgift]

Um... It should be. The problem is I learned all this stuff 6 montsh ago and set it up. Now that I have a new install I lost my original notes. Can you give me a few pointers on where to look and do?

1. Check cron running. (?)
2. I know the file exists.
3. I know the file is good.
4. ?

Thanks. It's a big help having the shell scripts ties to it.

[viperstrike]

i'm more of a FreeBSD guy, and just got into OS X (because it's BSD based). In your terminal (or CLI), type 'ps -auxwww | grep cron'. You should get something like :
root 392 0.0 0.0 14124 156 ?? Ss 9:03AM 0:00.00 cron

If not, then you should restart the machine, or just start 'cron' as root yourself.

Good luck!

[jgift]

Grep is running. Um. Can't be that hard. Will read up on things in one of my Linux books. Thanks.

[bracken]

Originally posted by jgift:
The cron file is where you list in Unix programs to run at specific times. It's a question of the right file in the wrong place I think.

I meant what's the content of the file.

[jgift]

Sorry... First thing was checking permissions. All ok there.