I just found out about a shell script /etc/daily that mac users recommend running daily or weekly. It supposedly removes old system messages and junk. Does OS X invoke this script automatically every so often or must it be manually invoked? Is it very necessary?
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Jump to PostHello Dani,
Mac OS X is a *nix, and it has a crontab just like Linux and the rest of them. If you take a look at /etc/crontab, it will show you that these scripts are called regularly.
Here is mine:
yoda:/etc Christian$ cat crontab
# /etc/crontab
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Jump to PostI saw my crontab contained "periodic daily", etc, so my question was whether this periodic program invoked the scripts that were in /etc/
At this point, I posted my second post in this thread ;)In the Old Unix World, the machines were left on all the time, and they …
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