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Apple has supplanted cron with launchd within Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server: http://developer.apple.com/macosx/launchd.html http://developer.apple.com/macosx/la
by Hoff 17y ago
Apple has supplanted cron with launchd within Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server:
http://developer.apple.com/macosx/launchd.html http://developer.apple.com/macosx/launchd.html
- blasdel 17y agoIt also replaces /bin/init, init scripts, xinetd scripts, and more! Almost everything that executes something automatically is now done through launchd (except LoginWindow still does its own instead of providing input to launchd). The only annoyance is Apple's worst-of-both-worlds XML plist format, which replaced something fairly close to JSON with an awful pair-wise angle-bracket shit-pile.
- wtallis 17y agoMore importantly, http://launchd.macosforge.org/ http://launchd.macosforge.org/