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Manage the periodic logs
Authored by: Black on Jul 25, '08 08:40:03AM

Actually, in this case, I'd say the problem was exactly the opposite. The log this hint is most concerned with is daily.out which is appended to by the daily periodic task. If the periodic tasks weren't running, this log wouldn't be growing. I wonder how many people are still having problems with periodic not running in 10.5. Launchd has been doing its job and rescheduling these for me properly for quite some time, and my computer is almost always asleep when the jobs are scheduled to run.

That said, the author of this hint might want to actually take a peek inside his logs if it has grown to .5GB in that amount of time. In about half that time, mine has grown to a whopping 130K. If it is spitting out that much verbiage, it might be time to actually see what it is saying...



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Manage the periodic logs
Authored by: Black on Jul 25, '08 08:44:49AM

Opps, this was meant as a reply to the first comment... Anyway, BlackPenguin is quite right, I didn't look at the output of the ls very carefully - I just took the BjarneDM's word for it. ~500k sounds just about right and certainly nothing to worry about.



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