[G4] OSX system maintenance utilities

[Johns Maillist]

Also, the program MacJanitor is a GREAT program that will automatically 
handle these events, daily, weekly and monthly.
John

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> On Dec 20, 2004, at 1:11 AM, Philip J Robar wrote:
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>> On Dec 19, 2004, at 7:16 PM, Jim Davis wrote:
>>
>>> I have been very interested in running the terminal maintenance 
>>> commands listed below, but the writer inserted a space between the 
>>> letters "sudo" and the remainder of the command code, and I don't 
>>> know if that space should be there or not.  Does anyone know where I 
>>> might find more information on these command line maintenance 
>>> helpers?  I've been getting too much pinwheeling, and I'd like to 
>>> try to address it myself.
>>> Thanks- Jim.
>>>>>
>>>>> Why bother with any of those? Launch the Terminal app, and 
>>>>> MANUALLY run
>>>>> 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
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>
>> Yes, the space should be there.
>>
>> sudo /etc/daily
>> sudo /etc/weekly
>> sudo /etc/monthly
>>
>> sudo is a command which runs programs as another user - root, a.k.a. 
>> superuser, by default. /etc/... are the scripts (programs) to run. In 
>> a terminal window type "man sudo" for more info.
>>
>> Phil
>>
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