Didn't see an answer yet to your question. These scripts do run
automatically at 3:15 in the morning (usually) but most folks don't have
their computers on at that time so the scripts don't get executed. The
configurations are in plain XML text. On my OSX 10.4 laptop I found them in
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons
and they were called
com.apple.periodic-daily.plist
com.apple.periodic-monthly.plist
com.apple.periodic-weekly.plist
There is a section in each file where the time is specified. So you
could set it for lunchtime or whatever. The time section looks like this:
<key>Hour</key>
<integer>3</integer>
<key>Minute</key>
<integer>15</integer>
So you should be able to use your favorite text editor and open up those
files and change the 3 to a 12 to make them run at lunch time. I'm
assuming there would need to be a reboot before the changes would go
into effect.
CB
Orin wrote:
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.
