[Ham-Mac] Mac Maintenance

[Steve - VA3SPH]

Yes interesting topic!

Things changed fairly radically with 10.4 and cron tasks.  Basically  
cron is turned off in favor of a new launcd service. You should find  
than in 10.4 you computer, if asleep, will wake up to perform  
maintenance.

If you have added CRONTAB files to schedule things CRON will still run.

Good explanation of the changes here...

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/11/15/terminal5.html

Also number one thing you can do to prevent disk corruption. UPS with  
usb cable tied into your Mac. Unless you have an iBook or PowerBook  
they have built-in UPS ;-)

Have a Merry Christmas and very Happy New Year!

Cheers & 73

Steve - VA3SPH

On 21-Dec-05, at 5:23 PM, Dick Kriss, AA5VU wrote:

> 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
>>
>
>
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