Chris suspected that the problem of OSX housekeeping tasks being run in the wee small hours when many Macs and their owners are asleep or switched off had been addressed by Apple.
A quick check using Onyx revealed that the daily and weekly tasks had last been carried out *two* nights ago in the early hours when the MacBook Pro should have been asleep. One might speculate how that came about, but an improvement nevertheless. Julian >> However it is my understanding that some of the Unix system >> maintenance >> tasks are set to run at 2am or thereabouts. So if one is not going to >> use a housekeeping utility to trigger these it may be no bad thing to >> leave a Mac running OSX on overnight periodically. > >Allegedly, this was addressed in 10.4 (or one of its early updates). >If the Mac is unable to run the tasks due to being turned off or >sleeping or similar, when the machine comes back online, the tasks >will run at that time instead. > >I do not know if it has fully corrected everything or not, just that >it has allegedly been fixed so shutting off the Mac is no longer >supposed to be a problem for getting the tasks handled. > >-chris ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
