|
|
Automatically change network locations with a cron job
So how does Apple handle this for the maintenance tasks on notebooks? I've noticed that most the cron jobs Apple uses to roll logs and cleanup the UNIX output are set to run at specific times of the month, week and day and usually early in the morning or late at night. If you have an iBook, like I do, and you almost never have the thing running for more than a few daytime hours at a time, how and when do these things get executed? Or is it advisable to one day a month let your iBook run and not sleep overnight?
Automatically change network locations with a cron job
You can use anacron to run these scripts in the 'necessary' periods. You can also use XJanitor, a perl script, for doing this.
Automatically change network locations with a cron job
They DON'T get run. That is why there are so many 3rd party utilities to either run the CRON jobs manually or to reset the times to when the user might be running the computer.
Automatically change network locations with a cron job
You can do it any time you feel by typing one of the following into the terminal: |
SearchFrom our Sponsor...Latest Mountain Lion HintsWhat's New:HintsNo new hintsComments last 2 daysNo new commentsLinks last 2 weeksNo recent new linksWhat's New in the Forums?
Hints by TopicNews from Macworld
From Our Sponsors |
|
Copyright © 2014 IDG Consumer & SMB (Privacy Policy) Contact Us All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners. |
Visit other IDG sites: |
|
|
|
Created this page in 0.12 seconds |
|