CRON on OS X server or launchd?

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• Ben

  September 2013

  Hi David,

  The cron script (scheduled.php) needs to be executed by cron every 5 minutes, if you have other ways to execute this script every 5 minutes, you can do so.

  Thanks.

  Best regards,
  Ben
• isaacadams

  September 2013

  David, if you figure out how, please post it on the forum, I've tried w/o luck!

  Thanks,
  Isaac
• David

  October 2013 edited October 2013

  Isaac, worked something out.

  We need to make a .plist file, like so. In this example, the .plist file would be called com.myhost.sendy.plist, and a real path to scheduled.php is required

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
  <plist version="1.0">
  <dict>
      <key>Label</key>
      <string>com.myhost.sendy</string>
      <key>ProgramArguments</key>
      <array>
          <string>/usr/bin/php</string>
          <string>/full/path/to/scheduled.php</string>
      </array>
      <key>StartInterval</key>
      <integer>300</integer>
  </dict>
  </plist>
  

  This file needs to be moved to /Library/LaunchDaemons

  Then:

  sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.myhost.sendy.plist

  One can see if it's loaded:

  sudo launchctl list | grep sendy

  Hope this helps... it seems to work, and I would appreciate any comments from others on the viability of this.