Use 'Tempus' to keep maintenance tasks current

Jul 09, '01 12:37:10PM

Contributed by: robg

[Editor's note: Submitted by jpbjpbjpb on July 6th.]

I got frustrated when I realized my TiBook was not rebuilding its locate database, then realized it was because it sleeps over night when all the cron tasks are scheduled to run.

What it does

Tempus gets run from cron every 10 minutes, if the machine is awake. When tempus runs, it checks its database to find out when the last time each task was run. If the last run was longer ago than the time specified in the task, it runs the task.

Requirements

To get tempus to work, you'll need to have python (and make sure its the unix version of python, not MacPython) correctly installed. You will also need to have the developer tools installed if you wish to use the easy installation option found in INSTALL.

Downloading

Download it from http://osx.ApesSeekingKnowledge.net/packages/tempus.html

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