[Ham-Mac] Norton's Systemworks 3.0 and Tiger

[Dick Kriss, AA5VU]

I am not sure what started this thread of comments but happiness getting rid
of Norton. 

I am using OSX 10.4.3 and do semi-regular maintenance to keep things in
order and working good.

1.  When I think about it usually every few days, I run the MacJanitor.app
that does the same things as the command line items.  As an option to
MacJanitor,  I have been known to run them from the terminal using these
commands:

sudo /etc/daily  ---each day, takes about five seconds
sudo /etc/weekly  ---each week, takes about five minutes for 50 GB of data
to update the locate
                database
sudo /etc/monthly ----each month, takes about two seconds

2. I then open the Disk Utility and click on the Repair Disk Permissions
button.

Once it is done, I then use the Disk Utility to Partition (not erase) my
BackUp hard drive with one partition and then run Disk First Aid on the
newly formatted backup drive.  If there has been a number of new changes
from the Software Updater or new applications or files,  I then use Carbon
Copy Cloner (CCC) to clone the Primary drive to the BackUp drive. I
sometimes restart from the Backup drive and run the Disk First Aid on the
primary drive. It always reassuring to know the backup HD really works.

As a belt and suspenders operation I have AppleJack
<http://applejack.sourceforge.net> installed.  If things really get hosed, I
restart holding down the Command and S keys.  At the command line prompt, I
enter "applejack AUTO restart" and it does its thing and restarts the
machine when done. AppleJack does a lot more than MacJanitor.

BTW, I use the larger HD as the primary HD because Tiger seems to work much
faster with some elbow room on the hard drive.  If you are running with a
near full hard drive, you should thing about picking up a larger drive or
doing some serious house cleaning.

73 Dick AA5VU