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>.