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. Marta On Mar 18, 2004, at 17:30, Lee Larson wrote:
> On Mar 18, 2004, at 5:08 PM, Marta Edie asked: > >> cron tasks -- what are they? > > There is a facility in Unix called cron that runs scheduled commands. > Mac OS X has a built-in list of cron tasks for system maintenance. > Unfortunately, they run early in the morning, when most of us are > asleep. If you don't leave your machine on all night, it's a good idea > to run them by hand once in a while. There are several programs > that'll do this for you. MacJanitor is one that comes to mind. > > > > | 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>. > | 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>.
