On 4/27/04 14:07, Bill Holt wrote >I can tell already I'm not going to be able to make the meeting tonight, so >I'll try a bit of brain picking this way. I have several issues of the >"can't find" sort because I archived a lot of email recently and haven't >figured out how to make it searchable yet. > [snip...]
> >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. You could change the cron scripts if you'd like to do it automatically. What is a bit simpler is to go get a copy of Onyx, and use it to run the scripts whenever you get the urge (i.e. manually). This is what I do at home, where my machine is asleep most of the time. > >Final "can't find" - someone from the list, Jane I think, sent me a note a >few weeks ago asking some questions about backup procedures ... my answer >being of the "can't help much" variety. I put that note aside to answer, >and it's joined the "can't find" group of things. Whoever sent it, if you >send it again I'll return a personal "beats me" response. hahahaha There's a utility called RsyncX which has a friendly interface to the unix rsync utility. It can do scheduled backups and the like, THOUGH I must confess I haven't tried it yet. > >I'm also missing some socks. > As Steven Wright sez: call Information. They apparently know everything. Bill | 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>
