[X Newbies] Routine Maintenance

[Randy B. Singer]

Bob Baron said:

>Does Panther do nightly/weekly routine maintenance while the 'puter 
>is in Sleep Mode? Thanks.


No.  The computer must be awake for the cron jobs to run.

Have a look at MacJanitor:
http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/macjanitor.html

or

OnyX
http://www.titanium.free.fr/us/onyx/

Both of which are free utilities that can be used to run the cron jobs at 
any time.

For more information, and other similar utilties, see:

http://www.macattorney.com/tutorial.html 

Item #13.



Randy B. Singer
Co-Author of: The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th and 6th editions)

How To Deal With Common OS X 10.3 Panther Problems
http://www.macattorney.com/panther.html