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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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Running Cron with an updated Bash version
know the full proper path and not depend on startup and login files as that is much more light weight for cron)
I’ll end with one last link on good customs for cron environment being intentionally different … Use cron to screencapture on Mountain Lion …
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How can I execute sudo commands as a cron job?
It's a security risk, but you can enable the root user and run the command in root's cron. Alternatively, have you tried using sudo -s to get a "root shell" and making root's cron that way. … Depending on your OS level, you might not need to have root enabled as a user for it's cron to run. …
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Cron script not executing on Mavericks
0,5,10,15,20 * * * * /usr/bin/logger "cron is working"
That way you'll know that cron is running for the user in question and can focus on either starting cron or fixing your script so it runs in the … limited cron environment. …
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How Can I Log Crontab File Writes
Open terminal and run this:
sudo fs_usage | grep cron
I'd run it using tmux or screen so that you can detach and check later. … Depending on how many cron jobs you have, this could generate a lot of messages and you'll want to not run it where a runaway process could cause harm. (backup, check filesystems for space, etc...) …
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cronjobs do not run
grant permissions for cron and possible the terminal apps / command line tools to run on Catalina.
check for full paths everywhere...
consider putting your commands in a script so you can debug them and … avoid needing to escape characters like % or run cron in debug/test mode …
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ssh-under-cron stops working in OS X 10.7 Lion
It's not fixing the cron issue, but is more stable as well as more people can help with it. …
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Cron job fails due to sleeping wifi?
It's set to not sleep, but it also has launchd jobs (cron is fine too if you want to maintain that older scheduling method) that SSH in to the client Macs. … The clients then can have their cron tasks scheduled for when they wake. …
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How do I know if a time machine backup is running?
The canonical way to check status of time machine is to use the utility and check status or for newer os check the current phase only:
tmutil status
tmutil currentphase
Now, you have to process t …
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"cron" processes piling up
Have you granted full disk access to your cron executable?
On Catalina, how can a cronjob get permission to touch files on a USB disk? …
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cron lacks permissions to run a script
It looks like the proper two programs to give full access to are:
cron
terminal.app
See rsync in cron on Catalina no longer working …
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cron queueing bash and python scripts
cron and "command not found"
cronjobs do not run
Getting unknown command error when trying to run script via cron …
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Shell command works fine as is, but not when executed from crontab. What's the difference?
Might you be running a version of macOS where cron needs to be granted disk access?
On Catalina, how can a cronjob get permission to touch files on a USB disk? …
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