Tom,
What maintenance routines other than daily, weekly, monthly need
to be run? When and how should I run them? I run MacJanitor on 10.4.8.
Steve
Tom Piwowar wrote:
Are Mac OS X maintenance routines supposed to be run for each and
every user of a given machine, or can a single
How do I get control of the log files. I am running out of space and that
is mostly RSS feeds but I am looking for anything else I can clear out
while I am it.
Log files are automatically rotated and the oldest ones deleted. Check
the date on daily.log to confirm when maintenance last ran.
Wow! So you haven't seen any of the modern Macs. If memory serves,
that model was early 1990s. Mac OS X is based on FreeBSD Unix now,
which has changed it quite a lot. The maintenance is for system files
that can get corrupted, typically with file permissions. You owe
yourself another look
I leave my Macs on for days or weeks and sleep them most of the time
that they are not being used. I just installed Anacron to stay on top of
routine maintenance. I think this site has a pretty good discussion of
Mac maintenance.
http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
Jordan
Steve Rigby wrote:
I've seen em plenty and used them a little, I just haven't bought one
because I can't justify the cost. I also didn't know you had to run nightly
'maintenance' to keep the thing from having corrupted files.
BTW, I don't want to start a cost debate...among other things I get at least
half my pc
Steve, To answer your other question, the so called cron jobs (old
name) need only be run
once for each Mac computer. No need to run them for each user account
if that's what
you mean.
Phil Marchetti
On Jul 29, 2007, at 2:43 PM, Steve Rigby wrote:
Are Mac OS X maintenance routines
Maintenance of the file system with scheduled utilities is a *nix thing
to increase file reliability that goes way back.
Actually if you read those scripts you will see that all they do is
rotate log files. OS X would make Commander Ductape proud. It logs almost
everything you do. Those log
I said it was a good discussion. I didn't say I did any of them except
Anacron, which checks way too often, but should do what I wanted.
For the uninitiated it covers a lot of ground in one place, and
information is good.
But I guess it is written by and for lawyers.
Tom Piwowar wrote:
I
On Jul 30, 2007, at 3:10 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
Actually if you read those scripts you will see that all they do is
rotate log files.
What is the exact meaning of the numerical values that are logged
within the MacJanitor window when I run that utility. They appear as
something similar
PM
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] OS X maintenance routines
Maintenance of the file system with scheduled utilities is a *nix thing
to increase file reliability that goes way back.
Actually if you read those scripts you will see that all they do is
rotate log files. OS X would make Commander Ductape proud
Are Mac OS X maintenance routines supposed to be run for each and
every user of a given machine, or can a single administrator run the
routines and have the results be of equal benefit to all users?
Depends on which maintenance routines you are talking about. The daily,
weekly, monthly scripts
On Jul 29, 2007, at 9:56 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
Don't need MacJanitor any more. The Mac checks at startup to see if the
maintenance scripts ran overnight. If not, it runs them right then.
I think that is in OS 10.4 and above. I still run 10.3.9.
Steve
Which OS ver does that?
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Just wondering since I haven't had a mac since my 6360...Maintenance for
what?
Mike
On 7/29/07, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the daily, weekly or monthly scripts such as run by MacJanitor
Don't need MacJanitor any more. The Mac checks at startup to see if the
maintenance scripts ran
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