Periodic processes on Mac OS X (cron jobs)

On the 10.5 and above, cron is deprecated. launchd is used instead. To obtain the similar effect of a cron job, one must make use of a launchd.plist file.

Resources

• Crating launchd Daemons and Agents
• Guidelines for Creating and Launching Daemons

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