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FB2 DEBUG: Cron Keeps Piling Up in MacOS

DEBUG: cron keeps piling up in macOS

So, long story… After upgrading to macOS Catalina my years-old automount.sh script running via cron stopped working. It’s been a long enough journey of fixing the script itself (sudo permissions, PATH variable not having some important directories in it when run as a script), but after script was fixed I faced another problem: cron processes keep piling up.