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XJanitor.pl intelligently runs required maintenance tasks
Just wanted to point out that checking it once daily, as rob suggested in his note, probably would not work. The "daily" events are already set up to check once per day, but if the computer is off it doesn't get run. The point of this type of software is to check often, in order to insure that at least one of the checks will happen when the computer is on.
XJanitor.pl intelligently runs required maintenance tasks
I have Xjanitor set to check at 15 minutes after the hour - this is once an hour. It doesn't take up any resources at all when it checks. It simply checks the modification dates of the logs for the periodic scripts. If they haven't been run in the appropriate time frame then it runs them. Even if your computer is asleep a lot, the chances are that at least once a day it is on at 15 minutes after the hour. It seems like a reasonable solution to me. Apple, on the other hand, has it set to run at a specified time in the middle of the night when your laptop is probably off or asleep.
XJanitor.pl intelligently runs required maintenance tasks
Addendum: I personally would rather not have a surge of activity on my comptuer when it wakes from sleep or turns on. Usually then is when I need to use it the most and I want it to be quick.
XJanitor.pl intelligently runs required maintenance tasks
"A better solution would be to activate XJanitor on a "wake up" event (via AppleScript, perhaps?). So when you wake your computer from sleep, one of the things it does is to check the periodic events and run them if needed." The problem is that the maintenance tasks need to be run as root. That's why the system cron should trigger them. To run them on wakeup or at another time triggered by the user would require authorizing the maintenance with an admin user password. That would quickly become annoying.
XJanitor.pl intelligently runs required maintenance tasks
A workaround for this problem would be a setuid'ed command line tool.
XJanitor.pl and Konfabulator
Konfabulator would be a perfect thing to initiate the XJanitor script...
Run XJanitor.pl 3 times per day...
Rather than running the script hourly or daily, you can have the script run two or three times a day, as the script's author suggests on his page:
"For example, for some people it might be enough to just check three times a day, morning, afternoon, and evening, like this:
that would have the script run at 9:15 AM, 3:15 PM and 9:15 PM... that is adequate enought for me... without having it run each hour. |
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