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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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Is cron command supposed to work like this?
You don't need to call cron directly. Any commands you want to run need to be added to the crontab of the user they should run as. …
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crontab doesn't seem to recognize `~`
~ is a symbol shells automatically expand to $HOME, a standard /bin/sh (which cron uses to run the commands) does not need to support ~ expansion. …
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"crontab -e" failing under Monterey with "$EDITOR: No such file or directory"
The error message you get indicates that the EDITOR variable is set to the literal value $EDITOR:
$ EDITOR='$EDITOR' crontab -e
crontab: $EDITOR: No such file or directory
crontab: "$EDITOR" exited wi …
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Crontab -l command working. No other crontab command is working
You need to edit your crontab to make changes. Run
EDITOR=nano crontab -e
to use the nano editor for this. Your (initially empty) crontab will be shown and can be edited (e.g. by adding the line you …
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Trying to add cronjob results in ""LICENSE":0: bad minute"
You can't add a crontab entry by just running crontab <entry details>. In your case the shell expands the * with whatever filenames it finds in the current directory (which seems to be a file called L …
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Mac mail mail from cron
You get mail from cron whenever a cron command fails. In such cases you can use
crontab -l
to see which commands cron executes. …
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Where should I put cron jobs?
Both /etc and /usr are part of macOS and get mostly overwritten with each OS upgrade (with the exception of /usr/local). So you don‘t want to store your own content there.
The canonical place for user …
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Cronjob macOS does not work if set with a bash external script
There is no need to check whether there currently is a crontab installed or not. Just run
(crontab -l 2>/dev/null; echo '@reboot bash /Users/user/myscript.sh') | crontab -
to add the @reboot line to …
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Why doesn't crontab run if screensaver is on?
/home is used by the automounter and can't be written to. Just try with another directory (eg /tmp).
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Stop cron daemon "symmetrical.xm" error messages in Terminal mail
open Terminal
run ls -l /Users/MyUsername/Library/symmetrical.xm/symmetrical.xm
If you get an error of any kind (directory or file not found) run crontab -r to remove your crontab.
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