they always run automatically. you can change them by editting the plists.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Orin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 6:41 PM Subject: Re: Maintenance tasks that run on the Mac [was Re: something odd whenstarting up the mac.] How do you make them run automaticly, run them by hand the first time and they'll run at a set time after that? On Jun 20, 2008, at 5:40 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Scott, > > As many people have said, there's nothing wrong with skipping the > maintenance scripts, but if you really want to run them by hand, start > up a terminal session (from Finder, Command-Shift-U to the utilities > folder, type "T" to go to terminal, VO-keys-space to select), then > type "sudo periodic daily" without the quotation marks, and enter. > You'll be prompted for a password -- you need to do this from an > account with Administrator's privilege. > > There are 3 commands in all: > > sudo periodic daily > sudo periodic weekly > sudo periodic monthly > > and you can issue any of these you like. (You only need to enter > a password after your first sudo command. For linux users, "sudo" > is Mac's counterpart to the "su" command for switching to superusers.) > These run very fast; usually it's only the monthly task that takes a > little while. You could pull up the Activity Monitor, which is > another > item in the Utility folder, and bring up its main window (Command-1) > to view what is happening after you issue one of the commands > from the terminal. > > The daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance tasks are scheduled > by the launch daemon. The times are set in files called: > > com.apple.daily.plist > com.apple.weekly.plist > com.apple.monthly.plist > > so it should be possible to modify the default run times, but you'd > need someone who is running Leopard to take a look at the files. > > HTH > Cheers, > > Esther > >> nothing bad will happen to your Mac if the scripts don't run. I >> too have >> the issue of not hearing the welcome message. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Scott Rutkowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 8:15 AM >> Subject: something odd when starting up the mac. >> >> >> HI again all. >> >> Just wondering if anyone else has come across this issue? >> >> Sometimes when I turn on my mac and let it start up, I don't hear the >> welcome to mackintosh message sometimes when I boot up the mac. >> Normally my mac boots to the desktop and most times it says welcome >> to >> mackintosh voice over is running finder macintosh hd. >> Is there a reason why sometimes the mac boots and nothing is >> spoken? Then >> when I use the arrow keys everything speaks fine? >> I've run repair disk permissions in disk utilities. >> One other question, is there a way of changing the maintenance >> scripts that >> run at 3 am to another time? >> I don't like leaving my mac on all night and i'm wondering if >> there's a way >> of telling the scripts to either run manually or run at a time when >> i'm >> awake? >> I'm concerned if these scripts don't run, something bad may happen >> to my >> mac. >> >> >> >> >> >> >
