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Cron on OSX
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Atlanta, GA, USA
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What user are OSX's housekeeping cron jobs (log rotation, etc) run under? I can't find them in the crontabs for any of the users listed in NetInfo.
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Mac Pro 2x 2.66 GHz Dual core, Apple TV 160GB, two Windows XP PCs
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Seattle, Wa, USA
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root runs them kinda...
there is no crontab for the user root, but crontab is configured to run anyting in this file /etc/crontab as root.
it's kinda like linux has the cron.daily folder and if you put shell scipts in there, cron will run them.
hope that helped
good luck
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Atlanta, GA, USA
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Thanks, that's good to know! My background is Linux and SYSV, so BSD is a new experience for me. I'm learning new things all the time.
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Mac Pro 2x 2.66 GHz Dual core, Apple TV 160GB, two Windows XP PCs
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Springfield, MA
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Originally posted by johann:
<STRONG>there is no crontab for the user root</STRONG>
Kinda trivial, but there actually is a root crontab, just like for every other user, in addition to the /etc/crontab file.
I prefer using the regular root crontab file because it's easily accessible with the crontab command, while /etc/crontab is unfortunately not.
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