> I'd read about this - does it still happen with 10.1.5? Yep, probably always will in OSX- it's just how unix works. Think of it as turning on server logs, which you can go through to figure what has been happening. Unix operating systems (and OSX is no exception) unless modified just love using your disks. Running the scripts gets rid of not only the logs but old scratch and junk files generated by the system.
One extremely helpful byproduct of this is if you have an application that is often crashing- instead of the extremely cryptic error messages of OS9, you get extremely cryptic error messages that can actually help the developer figure out what went wrong. Open up the console application, and under preferences set it to store crash logs- whenever an app crashes, OSX keeps track of what was happening when it did happen. Hell, just leaving the console on can be fun to see what is going on. Also check out syslog by typing "man syslog" in the terminal, can be extremely helpful. Other dumb stuff (but useful to those who need it) could be typing "last" under terminal, which tells you who/what/when people have logged onto your machine. > If my > Powerbook is sleeping will it wake up enough to do this stuff? Just > curious ( Only had a week or so with OS X). Part of it depends on the type of sleep it is in, under light sleep, yes. Under system sleep, no. Basically OSX is using cron to tell it to run shell scripts, which won't run under a deep system sleep... Macjanitor just triggers them whenever it pleases you. If you want to see what is being run, you can type these 3 things into the terminal and view the scripts. "more /etc/monthly" "more /etc/daily" "more /etc/weekly" Michael Bryan Bell ------------------ ICQ: 16106263 Yahoo: mhbell1 No Link for you! AIM: drunkenbatman -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
