On Jan 12, 2006, at 2:29 PM, Lee Larson wrote:
> On Jan 12, 2006, at 1:42 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote:
>
>> Is there a list, somewhere, of
>> these background processes, what they do, how long they take, and
>> most
>> importantly at what time they are performed?
>
> You have to be a little careful about this. They used to be
> standard Unix-type cron tasks in the /etc directory. They've
> recently been moved to /System/Library/LaunchDaemons. This will
> break some of those GUI programs that have been floating around for
> the last few years.
Interesting, I hadn't noticed the LaunchDaemons file, when did those
appear?
The run report of MacJanitor on 10.4.4 indicates:
Running all tasks..
Thu Jan 12 14:42:09 EST 2006
Removing old log files:
Removing scratch and junk files:
Removing scratch fax files
msgs: /var/msgs/bounds: No such file or directory
Backing up NetInfo data
Checking subsystem status:
disks:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s3 52291632 25421356 26614276 49% /
/dev/disk1s3 20651436 615664 20035772 3% /Volumes/xscratch20
/dev/disk1s5 57237124 26024164 31212960 45% /Volumes/xscratch50
/dev/disk0s5 107532712 19298956 88233756 18% /Volumes/x100
Last dump(s) done (Dump '>' file systems):
mail:
postqueue: warning: Mail system is down -- accessing queue directly
Mail queue is empty
network:
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts
Oerrs Coll
lo0 16384 <Link#1> 49858 0 49858
0 0
lo0 16384 127 localhost 49858 - 49858
- -
lo0 16384 localhost ::1 49858 - 49858
- -
lo0 16384 x-12s-power fe80::1 49858 - 49858
- -
gif0* 1280 <Link#2> 0 0 0
0 0
stf0* 1280 <Link#3> 0 0 0
0 0
en0 1500 <Link#4> 00:11:24:7f:7b:6a 1036693 0 203181
0 0
en0 1500 12.203.232/21 12-203-238-232. 1036693 - 203181
- -
fw0* 4078 <Link#5> 00:11:24:ff:fe:7f:7b:6a 0 0
0 0 0
ruptime: no hosts in /var/rwho.
Rotating log files: system.log
Thu Jan 12 14:42:10 EST 2006
Rebuilding locate database:
Rebuilding whatis database:
find: /usr/local/man: No such file or directory
Rotating log files: ftp.log lpr.log mail.log netinfo.log ipfw.log
secure.log
Thu Jan 12 14:44:15 EST 2006
Doing login accounting:
total 427.57
x12 427.53
root 0.03
Rotating log files: wtmp install.log
Rotating fax log files:
Done
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