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10.4: Reschedule periodic maintenance tasks
Authored by: akakie@acsalaska on May 03, '05 06:22:59PM

XJanitor.pl worked for me through 10.3.9, but the structure is now changed. I use a PowerBook G4 which is off at the critical times when maintenance runs. I need the "catch up" on missed tasks ability and I suppose many others do as well.

Does anyone know if Apple's new version includes the catch up capability? If not, I hope someone is working on it. It is probably beyond me.



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XJanitor.pl
Authored by: googoo on May 03, '05 11:52:15PM

XJanitor.pl still works. It runs the periodic scripts directly (if needed). Just execute it from the terminal (or whatever method you normally use).

You cannot use cron anymore, though (unless you reconfigure to run it). If you want to run XJanitor.pl on a schedule, you will have to use launchd. I am sure we will read MUCH more on launchd soon.

-Mark



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Cron does run
Authored by: googoo on May 04, '05 12:10:41AM

Let me correct myself: cron is running on Tiger without any need to reconfigure. I guess I should have tested it before saying that it did not run!

-Mark



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Cron does run
Authored by: Ric_D on May 05, '05 07:05:41PM

Hmmm... well, I can see in Activity Monitor that cron is running, but my jobs in /etc/crontab are not executing. This is driving me crazy...



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Cron does run
Authored by: m1dg3 on May 06, '05 12:21:07PM

The Tiger install removes all your entries from /etc/crontab.

If you put them back in they will run.



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XJanitor.pl
Authored by: macmaxbh on May 17, '05 06:28:15PM

It doesn't work for me--if I check the Xjanitor.out log I get:
sh: line 1: periodic: command not found



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10.4: Reschedule periodic maintenance tasks
Authored by: derekhed on Jun 15, '05 03:23:29PM

I would like to re-enable XJanitor to run on my laptop, but I am worried that the launchd process will still run the maintenance tasks if I leave it running all night. I assume that I would need to disable the launchd part that fires off the maintenance tasks if I am going to use XJanitor. I have some log scripts that rely on the logs being there, such as webalizer.

Has anyone addressed this issue?



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