[Ham-Mac] Mac Maintenance

[Dick Kriss, AA5VU]

Bob,

I changed the title because this really has nothing to do with Norton.  It
is my understanding that OSX will perform the daily only tasks sometime
between 2 and 3 AM.  I am not sure of the exact time.

I do not leave my G4 on all night so I need to do the daily maintenance. As
noted earlier I  can have MacJanitor do it or do it myself in the terminal.

Try the following in the terminal mode

sudo /etc/daily

You will be ask for your password and it only takes few seconds.

There are daily, weekly and monthly commands.  MacJanitor does them one at a
time or all. It takes longer to do the weekly command.  I prefer the
MacJanitor user interface over the command line. Many prefer the command
line. 

How do you really know your eMac is doing the required maintenance?  This
lack of feedback is why I prefer to do it myself.

FYI, there are some good shareware utilities that will do it for you if you
prefer to not be involved with the process.   It is no big deal to do it
yourself.

73 Dick AA5VU


On 12/21/05 3:21 PM, "Robert Lucas" <robbon2 at verizon.net> wrote:

> Instead of owning or running MacJanitor, I simply schedule my eMAC to
> come on every weekday morning at 0300. By doing that, does that mean
> that I am automatically performing the Periodic Maint. at 0315 that you
> are stating above from the Terminal?? I've never been able to get a
> clear handle on this issue.
> 
> When it comes up, I do hear a few clicks here and there, that lasts for
> about fifteen seconds or so. I would presume that it is doing the
> maint.
> 
> Yea/Nay???
> 
> Bob
> W1HGQ
>