It seems that somewhere along the line the ability to list and edit your user crontab went away, maybe they are wanting to migrate people across to "launchd" and "launchctl" as the preferred way of doing things. One of the things I still like about Apple is the fact that under the hood it's still rock solid Unix, and that most of the time, if it works on Ubuntu it works on OS X too, sometimes it may look a little different but in the end you can still bask in some command line warmness to be able to achieve what you want. So, if the commands crontab -l and crontab -e appear not to work anymore, how do you get the same result? For the record, running uname -a on my iMac gives me: Darwin Macintosh.local 10.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 Your mileage may vary if its radically different than that... a long time back I wrote a PHP class wrapper around the cron system so that it would ...
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