Mac OS X crontab question: Help, I want to run a job through the cron (crontab) facility on Mac OS X, how do I do that? I keep trying to edit my crontab file, but my Mac OS X system won't save my changes, or run my program.
Mac OS X - crontab and launchd
Here's the short story about crontab on Mac OS X: The crontab command seems to be deprecated on Mac OS X, and the Apple documentation encourages you to use their "launchd" facility. Here's a blurb from the Mac OS X crontab man page: