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Does launchd Beat cron?
Blamemyparents writes "For those who aren't Appleheads, you may not have heard that with Tiger, Apple swapped out old Unix standby cron for their own creation, launchd (Apple mentions it on their OS X page and has the man page for it up as well). Seems like it's a bit nerdy, but this changes a LOT about how *nix systems have done things for many years. Launchd is Apple's replacement for quite a few utilities, including launching and quitting quite a few different things, and getting info from the system and other running processes. This page from Ars Technica talks a bit more in depth about it. Apple has open sourced the thing, and is apparently hoping all the unix kids will take a look."
Launchd doesn't have anything to do with crond. You can even tell just by looking at the name! Launchd - system startup. Crond - periodic program running. Here was me thinking that the Slashdot editors were UNIX nerds. Turns out they're neither UNIX nerds nor editors. Jeez, check your submissions to make sure they're, ya know, factually correct.