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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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How to get macOS Wi-Fi device name programmatically in Bash script?

Wi-Fi, Device: en1) (5) Bluetooth PAN (Hardware Port: Bluetooth PAN, Device: en2) This is good for reading but how do I get 'en1' programmatically in a Bash script so I can use the device name in a cron
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How to reconnect VPN by using Tunnelblick from command line?

Therefore, I'm hoping I can create a cron job to periodically check if the VPN is connected (probably by pinging an URL only accessible via the said VPN), and if not, reconnect to it by restarting Tunnelblick …
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How to automatically deliver /var/mail/USER to my Gmail?

My cron jobs sometimes sends mail to /var/mail/USERNAME. I normally read it by log on the Mac computer and run mail command to read and delete these mails. …
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How to force Wi-Fi to rescan available sources and reconnect to a fixed named source from cr...

I'm thinking adding a cron job to force the server to rescan available Wi-Fi signals and try to reconnect to it if it find the named source. …
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