[G4] OSX system maintenance utilities

[rich northouse]

Thanks Doug,

rich


On Dec 20, 2004, at 9:03 PM, Doug McNutt wrote:

> At 08:00 -0600 12/20/04, rich northouse shouted:
>> WHAT DO THESE COMMANDS DO?	
>
> If you really want to know what the periodic scripts do you can read 
> the shell scripts, that they actually are, with any text editor.
>
> /usr/sbin/periodic
>
> is a bash script that is pointed to one of three directories which are
>
> /etc/periodic/daily/
> /etc/periodic/monthly/
> /etc/periodic/weekly/
>
> on any normal UNIX machine. But on Mac OS neXt they are:
>
> /private/etc/periodic/daily/
> /private/etc/periodic/monthly/
> /private/etc/periodic/weekly/
>
> Inside of those folders are separate scripts which are executed. Even 
> if you're not an expert in bash you can get a feel by reading the 
> comments.
>
> It's probably a good idea to make copies in your own user space so as 
> to avoid accidental changes. Finder will likely hide them from you but 
> Terminal will not. Use the UNIX cp command or use cat and then copy 
> and paste the content from the Terminal window.
>
> Actually /usr/sbin/periodic checks for stuff in the defaults system 
> too but I don't think there is anything there. Anyone know about that?
>
> And check out Macaroni. The author is a friend.
>
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