Your PB and night

[Wilson Ng]

MacJanitor is a freeware download and will perform the daily, weekly, and
monthly maintenance routines.




On 5/22/04 8:39 AM, the Defendant "PowerBook G4 Titanium List"
<Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com> said:

> Message-Id: <AF310F0D-AB64-11D8-86A0-00039307306E at freenet.de>
> From: Wilhelm Wanders <kaskudoo at freenet.de>
> Subject: Re: [Ti] Your PB and night
> Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 16:23:13 -0400
> 
> 
> On May 21, 2004, at 3:55 PM, Scott Smith wrote:
> 
>> Is the general consensus voting to leave the PB on at night (OSX) in
>> order for the maintenance operations to occur.  I have never left it
>> on (I sleep mine) and I've read that certain maintenance task in Unix
>> are scheduled for the wee hours.  Advise?
>> 
> mh, i leave my pb running 24/7, but this is definetely not necessary
> for that task. those tasks are scheduled by 'cron' .... now i am no
> expert, but i've read about this too (the nightly thingy)
> lately there were some posts about maintenance software and someone
> mentioned 'Cocktail' .... so I installed it and checked it out and hey,
> there you can activate and re-schedule those tasks (some are done
> monthly, others weekly and daily)
> this program is free to try (i think it gives you a period of 30 days
> to check it out) .... it has a lot more features and it might really be
> worth getting it ....
> 
> i am sure there are some console commands that will let cron run the
> tasks immideately too - but i am really not that good with the console
> (i grew up on MS DOS & win ... switched to mac 6 years ago) .... techtv
> had an article about that too i think ....
> 
> i am sure someone here knows =)
> 


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