Thanks Lee. I'll try sudo George On Nov 13, 2005, at 3:25 PM, Lee Larson wrote:
> On Nov 13, 2005, at 1:13 PM, George H.Yankey wondered: > >> 1st. : I use MacJanitor on a regular basis . I am running OS >> 10.3.9 and seldom shut down my computer . Is it helpful to use >> MacJanitor ? I can't really tell if it helps or not. > > There is a facility in all Unix systems called cron that can be used > to schedule jobs to be run at regular times. There are periodic > housekeeping jobs that Apple has set up to be run. The three sets of > jobs are run daily, weekly and monthly. The daily jobs are scheduled > at 3:15 every morning. The weekly jobs are at 4:30 on Sunday morning. > The monthly jobs are run at 5:30 in the morning on the first day of > the month. > > Many people don't have their computers awake at those times, so the > jobs don't run. MacJanitor lets you run them whenever you want. If > your computer is regularly on during the wee hours, then there is no > need to run MacJanitor. > > The jobs are mostly mundane housekeeping tasks that probably won't > make much difference whether or not they're run. They do things like > hacking the old entries off the bottom of logs, rebuilding the locate > database and trashing temporary files. You can look at the scripts in > your /etc directory. They're called daily, weekly and monthly. > > In fact, it's easy to run them by hand instead of using MacJanitor. My > PowerBook is seldom open overnight, so I run them every once in a > while. Just open up a terminal window and type > > sudo /etc/weekly (or daily or monthly) > > It won't hurt anything to try it. I actually find this easier than > MacJanitor. > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be November 22 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
