Cron-ic Memory Lapse
TechnicalI don't know whether it's something I'm missing or something extra that I have, but I can never, and I mean never, remember the order of arguments when I need to create a new cron job. Every time, it seems, my order of operations when creating a new job is:
- $ crontab -e
- Ask the Google monster to consume "crontab syntax" and spit up a result from some depth of the Internet universe.
- Copy the syntax into my crontab.
- Modify the copied syntax to create the job I need.
Seriously. Every single damn time. I did it just now so I could write this. Right now, at this moment, I know the syntax is:
minute, hour, day-of-month, month, day-of-week, command
And now I don't. For Mac users, though, it's all good. Lifehacker posted its download of the day today and CronniX looks like just what I need - a nice GUI into a user's crontab.
I've heard the rumors about this launchd thing, but I need to do some more reading. At a glance, I just don't get it. I don't understand how to edit it, where to put it, or how its called. cron, I get. Until Apple makes cron disappear or I find some time to dig into launchd and its syntax, I think I'll stick with what I don't know.
${UPDATE} . Evidently others suffer with this affliction, as well. The site looks like it's getting hammered at the moment.
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