On Apr 27, 2004, at 2:07 PM, Bill Holt asked: > Second "can't find" - there is a way, I know, to have the OSX system > do it's > self-repair thing on a schedule of my choosing instead of it's wee > hours of > the morning preference. I know I've read about it here ... but can't > find > it because that exchange is in my archive. Can't even find it on the > apple > site ... probably because I don't have enough of a clue to ask the > question > intelligently.
There's probably a nice GUI program somewhere to let you change the times, but I've never looked for one. It's actually not very complicated, if you're willing to use a text editor. If you look at the file /etc/crontab, you'll see near the end # Run daily/weekly/monthly jobs. 15 3 * * * root periodic daily 30 4 * * 6 root periodic weekly 30 5 1 * * root periodic monthly These three lines tell when the periodic maintenance scripts are executed. The columns stand for minute hour monthday month weekday owner command From this, we see that the run times are daily 3:15 AM weekly 4:30 AM on Saturday (Monday is 1) monthly 5:30 AM on the first of the month With a text editor, you can change them to run whenever you want. To learn more about this than you'll ever need to know, open up a terminal window and read the documentation by typing man 5 crontab | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be April 27. 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>
