[G4] OSX system maintenance utilities

John Baltutis baltwo at san.rr.com
Mon Dec 20 17:49:54 PST 2004


On 12/20/04, rich northouse <rnorthouse at wi.rr.com> wrote:
>
> 			WHAT DO THESE COMMANDS DO?
>
>>>>>>> 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

They run the three OS X background maintenance tasks that Apple built into
the system. See <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107388>.


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