Making a cron(job) on XAMPP for Mac OS X

Question

how do I create a cron / cronjob (I am not quite sure about the correct terminology ^^ ) on XAMPP for Mac OS X running Snow Leopard? Or how do I make a cron(job) on Snow Leopard, whether XAMPP or not?

Answer 1

OSX has crontab support for running scheduled tasks.

type

man crontab

In terminal for more information. I also found this link .