January 21, 2006
Goodbye cron, Hello launchd
So apple has decided to ditch cron and replaced it with launchd.
launchd is configured through .plist files. Here's the process I used for running a shell script from my user account.
The currently logged in user can run custom launchd scripts by placing them in:
~/Library/LaunchAgents
If the LaunchAgents directory doesn't exist then create it in the terminal with the following command (or just create a new folder in the Finder):
mkdir ~/Library/LaunchAgents
Use emacs or a similar editor to create the plist files
emacs ~/Library/LaunchAgents/script.plist
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