The National Enquirer reports at 11:22 AM +1000 9/29/04, MMB wrote: >Thanks Bruce. > >Is the 3am cleanup done on any particular day?
Apple set the daily maintenance task to run at 3:15 AM, the weekly at 4:30 AM on Saturdays, and the monthly at 5:30 AM the first day of each month. You can pick up free utilities that will run these scripts automatically at any time that you want. You can also run all of these by hand and read its output in the terminal by doing: sudo /etc/daily sudo /etc/weekly sudo /etc/monthly See "Learning the Terminal in Jaguar" for a great discussion about these tasks. <http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/12/06/terminal_osx.html> <http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/01/24/terminal_osx.html> <http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/03/21/terminal_osx.html> >Can I see that somehow on the hard disc? If you're asking if you can see *if* they ran, or *what* they did, the logs (both the most recent and the tar'd recent history stack) are in /var/log. This directory contains quite a collection of logs from various subsystems. You can 1) Open a new Finder window. 2) Choose Go -> Go to Folder (or press command+shift+G) 3) Type "/var/log" and press return. 4) Check the modification date on "daily.out" -- if it's today, then your scripts ran last night. (daily.out is the log file for the daily script. There's also weekly.out and monthly.out) HTH, Bob -- 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/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
