{"id":2142,"date":"2014-04-07T17:06:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T17:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=2142"},"modified":"2023-12-30T20:07:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T20:07:09","slug":"job-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/job-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Job Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that <strong>Mac<\/strong> have begun to decrement cron and recommend the use of launchd for job control.<\/p>\n<p>I have found the following links to help me write the job control parameter file.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160410032619\/https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/library\/mac\/documentation\/Darwin\/Reference\/ManPages\/man8\/launchd.8.html\">man launchd<\/a><\/li>\n<li>a <a href=\"http:\/\/ss64.com\/osx\/launchctl.html\">manual page on launchctl<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"what it says\" href=\"http:\/\/arunxjacob.wordpress.com\/2008\/08\/28\/mac-launchd-and-launchctl-the-osx-alternative-to-cron\/\">Mac launchd and launchctl \u2014 the OSX alternative to\u00a0cron<\/a> a blog by arunxjacob<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/library\/mac\/documentation\/macosx\/conceptual\/bpsystemstartup\/chapters\/ScheduledJobs.html\">Scheduling Timed Jobs <\/a>at the Mac Developer Library<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/library\/mac\/documentation\/macosx\/conceptual\/bpsystemstartup\/chapters\/CreatingLaunchdJobs.html#\/\/apple_ref\/doc\/uid\/TP40001762-104142\">Creating a launchd Property List File<\/a> also at the Mac Developer Library<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that Mac have begun to decrement cron and recommend the use of launchd for job control. I have found the following links to help me write the job control parameter file. man launchd a manual page on launchctl Mac launchd and launchctl \u2014 the OSX alternative to\u00a0cron a blog by arunxjacob Scheduling Timed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[150,3],"tags":[657,655,656,75,911],"class_list":["post-2142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-macos-technology","category-technology","tag-cron","tag-job-control","tag-launchd","tag-macos","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Star-Trek-Bridge-from-pintrest.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3799,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions\/3799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}