07-07-2008, 11:24 AM

Hi Guys,

I am new to the mac platform and I am trying to run a simple apple script in a cron job on my leopard 10.5.4 box.
The script is saved on my desktop. I have created my cron job in /etc/crontab as such

01 * * * * slepain /Users/slepain/Desktop/Free\ Dashboard\ Memory.scpt

When I try to see if my user has a cron job with "crontab -r" i get " no crontab for slepain"

Though, I am receiving mail from my cron daemon in /var/mail that tells me cron is trying to access my script but "permission deny"

I looked at the permission and slepain (my user) has full access to it.

What can I do to remedy to that?

07-07-2008, 11:54 AM

if you edited /etc/crontab instead of doing a crontab -e it won't show any jobs for your user, since it's a system job then. In that case (if it's indeed a system job) I'd run it as root rather than as your user. Else, I'd remove it, run crontab -e and actually set the job up as a user job. HTH