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#149 Launchd support instead of cron for OS X 10.5+

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2008-08-14
2008-08-14
cj0
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In Webmin 1.430 on Darwin 2008 the error message "The Cron jobs directory /etc/crontab does not exist. Maybe the module's configuration is incorrect, or Cron is not installed?" appears on "Scheduled Cron Jobs" module.

When the information on Wikipedia [1] is correct , cron (and several other similar scheduling services) support has been dropped from OS X since Leopard (10.5).

The new OS X replacement is named launchd.

Feature request is to disable cron, at, etc. for OS X relevant versions and enable a launchd compatible alternative.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launchd

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