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Check system maintenance tasks at startup
Hi there, you're right. It doesn't help (on its own) for those who leave their laptops on. It wasn't meant to be a one-size-fits-all tip. But something that I decided to use. I'm a programmer and so like to find (and in so doing learn) ways of doing things myself rather than simply pull down a ready-made tool. Ready-made tools don't teach you about the system. So, If there's other tools out there that fit the bill for your purposes - that's great. Having a choice is good. The other good thing about all the feedback is seeing where this type of hint could be improved. That's the great thing about this forum. Anyway, the /Library/StartupItems is a standard built-in system tool. I was interested in putting something into place that met the following criteria:
If the thing that's missing is, "may not run if sleeping rather than rebooted" then it would only take a little more creativity to fit that bill... (e.g., setting an hourly cron job that kicks off the startup item).
And only a little bit more creativity is required to enable you to turn this feature off for specific times of high-volume processing... e.g., create an AppleScript that's available from your Script Menu that will toggle the renaming of the StartupItem script (placing a script with the name Periodic in the right place so that the cron job doesn't get upset. (Left as an excercise for someone who's got a bit of spare time.) --- |
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