The National Enquirer reports at 9:54 AM -0400 10/1/04, K wrote: >Thanks to everyone for the info about the correct way to run the repair >permissions thing.. I just ran repair permissions successfully from Disk >Utility from 10.3.5 here on the Pismo...will try it later on the iMac... >Now a different "stupid question"..How does one get into Terminal to >manually run those "clean up scripts"?
All you need to do is open the Terminal app. I'm not sure where it is in 10.3.5. But if it's not in your Apps Folder or your Utilities Folder, simply use Find. Then open the Terminal like any other application. It will come up with the shell prompt ready to accept your command(s). >If these scripts will run automatically overnite, what type of program >should be running to keep the system awake? You don't need to do anything to keep you computer awake. Just make sure that the Energy Saving settings aren't set to put it to sleep...period. > I would do that also...Is >there a way to check whether or not the scripts have run recently? As I told Bruce in another thread a couple of days ago: 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) >It would be appreciated if someone could/would send me the needed info >offline so I can try to do this chore w/out messing up the drives. Did you mean "off-list" rather than off-line? If people only respond off-list, how is anyone supposed to know whether you received any help from someone else or not? And some of us even make mistakes every once in an while. When advice is given via the list, someone (probably more than one) will catch an error. HTH, Bob -- If replying privately, please include my name in the To: address, so that my filters won't send your reply to the trash. -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
