[G4] OSX system maintenance utilities

[Jim Pacyga]

and if you really get tricky...just set up cron to do it for you when 
the system is most likely to be running as opposed to strange dead of 
night times when it might be asleep or turned off...


On 12 Oct 2004, at 17:25, John Baltutis wrote:

> On 10/12/04,  "Richard M. Kriss" <rmkriss at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>> Any reason for using OnyX or sterMachine 2.1.4 over the tried and 
>> proven
>> MacJanitor 1.2.1?
>>
>> I have been using MacJanitor and it seems to do a good job and worry 
>> about
>> utilities conflicts so I have not even tried the others.  I do NOT 
>> want an
>> automatic system maintenance utility.
>
> 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
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