Hi, > On 10 Jul 2018, at 09:21, Keifer Bly <keifer....@gmail.com> wrote: > > So for a while I have been struggling to find a way to automatically update > the tor relay software on macOS High Sierra. What I am currently doing is > running a batch file that runs the command “brew upgrade tor” continuously. > However, I am attempting to find a way to do this automatically on macos High > Sierra where the process doesn’t have to be running every second.
We do stable Tor releases at most every few weeks, so once a day should be fine. > Here’s the unfortunate thing, on the newest macos operating systems, it > appears there is no possible way to run terminal commands automatically, as > crontab has been disabled / removed from newer mac operating systems (I > discussed this with Apple technical support) and applications to run scripts > automatically are incompatible with newer macos. On macOS High Sierra, cron is deprecated, but not disabled: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprecation So I’m not surprised that Apple technical support told you not to use it. > Any thoughts on this would be appreciated, thank you. You might find this stack overflow answer helpful: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32781884/is-crontab-broken-on-osx-el-capitan Here’s how I executed a command via cron on macOS High Sierra: ($ means: In a non-root user terminal, run the command after the $) $ crontab -e Type: * * * * * /usr/bin/osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to display dialog "I am cron"' Exit your editor. Wait a minute, then check the Finder for a dialog. Next time you have a general sysadmin question, try searching online for the answer. T
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