crontabs on mavericks

crontabs in Mavericks

#to create a default crontab:
sudo touch /etc/crontab

#vi doesn't seem to work with crontab on mavericks, so set nano as the editor
export EDITOR=nano

#to edit the crontab for your user
crontab -e
#save the crontab, by pressing ctrl+x , it will then ask if you want to save the changes - press y to confirm.

#when you save the crontab, it should say 'installing new crontab'
#check that the job is listed
crontab -l

#make sure cron is running, it should already be if there is a file called crontab in etc
sudo cron