[G4] OSX system maintenance utilities

[Valerie Maples]

Asking the proverbial stupid question, how do you launch the terminal
program in OS X?

Also, I hear people talking regularly about "repairing permissions". How do
you do that?

I realize I'm on a G4 forum, but I am running a Macintosh G5 that was just
send to rest to replace my daughter's Quicksilver.   All help is greatly
appreciated!

Valerie


On 10/12/04 7:25 PM, "John Baltutis" <baltwo at san.rr.com> wrote:

> 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