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Cron is a time-based job scheduler found in most Unix-like computer operating systems, like macOS. Cron is driven by a crontab (cron table) file, a configuration file that specifies commands to run periodically on a given schedule. This tag should be use when dealing with any cron issues.

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cron is failing to run my AppleScript

Make sure the ~/Desktop/myfile.applescript file is executable. You can only call a script by filename if it has the relevant execute bit. Consider the following Terminal session: $ ls -laFh sh.sh -r …
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Where is the cron log file in MacOSX Lion?

By default, cron does not log output of executed jobs. It is possible to log the fact that cronjobs have been executed, but that is not the default on OS X either. …
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