Timeline for Run Shell Scripts on a Schedule
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| Nov 14, 2022 at 16:55 | answer | added | ccpizza | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 21, 2021 at 21:39 | answer | added | TJ Luoma | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 21, 2021 at 21:25 | comment | added | Alana Storm | That's good to know @GordonDavisson -- this particular question was prompted by an issue with setting up a new cron job that was silently failing, leaving me guessing as to what was causing the failure and being unable to rule out System Integrity Protection (even though a second cron job is running fine). If launchd suffers the same sorts of issues that's good to know. A bummer, but still good to know. | |
| Aug 21, 2021 at 20:47 | comment | added | Gordon Davisson |
launchd jobs are subject to the same permissions restrictions as cron jobs (see "How to run a LaunchAgent that runs a script which causes failures because of System Integrity Protection", for example). Personally, I don't see any great need to switch from cron, if that's what you're more comfortable with (at least at this point). But if you do need to switch, launchd is definitely the system to switch to.
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| Aug 21, 2021 at 20:10 | comment | added | user3439894 |
Apple recommends using launchd and while it's a bit of a handful learning it from the various manual pages around it, launchctl, launchd.plist and launchd, there are third-party applications that present a GUI interface to it. One of which that I've used in the past is Lingon, however there are a few more of them out there.
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| Aug 21, 2021 at 20:01 | history | asked | Alana Storm | CC BY-SA 4.0 |