On Mar 18, 2004, at 6:16 PM, Marta Edie queried: > If I understand you correctly, leaving the computer on all night, it > will do these cron exercises without being prodded or scheduled? I > don't have a MacJanitor, only the regular disk utilities that came > with the Mac.
Tasks scheduled with cron are done with varying frequency. There are various maintenance tasks that are run daily, weekly, or monthly. The daily tasks are scheduled for 3:15 every morning. The weekly tasks are done at 4:30 in the morning on Saturday. The monthly tasks are done at 5:30 in the morning on the first day of the month. If you have your machine turned off at these times, they do not get done. MacJanitor is a free program to make your Mac run the maintenance scripts whenever you want. There are several other programs which do the same thing. <http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/macjanitor.html> It's a good idea to run the maintenance scripts once in a while because they do useful things like rotating logs, clearing caches and generally removing detritus from your hard drive. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be March 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
