I guess it’s time to finally bite the bullet and learn launchd. It’s rather more complex than crontab, though it is more flexible and extendable. The real problem, however, is that Apple simply deletes the file /etc/crontab when you upgrade to Snow Leopard. Which is pretty hostile, but gets the message across that we should stop using it.

It should also be noted that the developer of Lingon, the launchd plist creator, has decided to stop development. Which isn’t fun for us – it was an incredibly handy tool. Now I need to find (or write) something similar to the Solaris 10 SMF Generator, which I can’t find just now.