[polendo]

Hi all,

I forgot were I saw the commands to execute the daily, weekly and monthly maintenance commands that are used in the terminal. I used the search, but with no avail.

I know I can execute them using Onyx, but I want to start using the terminal.

it goes like psudo weekly (enter) .. something like that. Do you happen to know those commands?

regards

[pat++]

sudo /etc/daily
sudo /etc/monthly
sudo /etc/weekly

should do the trick.

[polendo]

Thanks, I will try it.

I think I remember the word "maintenance" at the command prompt instead of the /etc/. Anyway, I will give it a go.

thanks

[Ω]

Maybe you were thinking of

sudo periodic daily ......

[Boondoggle]

how hard is it to set these up to run at startup?

[polendo]

thats the one "?".. thanks.

Boondoggle: I guess with apple script these can be done automatically?

[utidjian]

Originally posted by Boondoggle:
how hard is it to set these up to run at startup?

With anacron (which is available via Fink) one can set it up so that the daily, weekly, monthly cron jobs will be checked and if they haven't been run within their respective periods they will be run shortly after bootup. That is to say... if it has been 24 hours since /etc/daily was run anacron will automagically run /etc/daily. If it has been 7 days since weekly was last run anacron will run it. /etc/monthly will be run similarly.

This is useful for workstations and laptops that may not stay turned on all the time. Anacron will ensure that they are run when neccessary without any user intervention.

Configuration is simple. Just load /sw/etc/anacrontab in a text editor and it tells you what to do.

[spatterson]

Originally posted by pat++:
sudo /etc/daily
sudo /etc/monthly
sudo /etc/weekly

should do the trick.

What exactly to these commands do. Before someone like me types them in and blows up their comptuer. LOL., but seriously what do the do?

[utidjian]

Originally posted by spatterson:
What exactly to these commands do. Before someone like me types them in and blows up their comptuer. LOL., but seriously what do the do?

They are part of the essential maintenance of your system. Some things will not work as well or work at all unless they are done.

You can see exactly what they do by just opening a terminal and doing:

less /etc/daily

They are fairly well commented where what they do is not obvious. If you are not at all familiar with shell scripts they may be a bit difficult to read. But to some people it is just as easy as reading a comic book ;-)

In any case... running them will NOT "blow up" your system. They are run automagically anyhow if your system is left on for over a day, week, month, whatever. If your system does blow up it means that something was wrong with it :-D