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Authored by: professor on Mar 12, '02 02:27:45AM

Putting daily maintenance tasks in /etc/daily.local is a great idea (though, if your machine is asleep at 3:15 am, they won't get executed).

However, if you are running sendmail, you don't want to wait until the next morning to clean up after Apple's Installer. (Sendmail will *censored* and complain and refuse to do stuff if the permissions on / are wrong.)

Best to click on over to Terminal.app and issue the command
sudo chmod 755 /
before clicking on "restart" in the Installer.



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Can't wait
Authored by: saywake on Mar 12, '02 08:56:07AM

Actually, the cron jobs will run at 3:15am even if the machine is asleep. In the Energy Saver pref pane, under options, there is a check box to wake for admin tasks.

Strangely though, it doesn't show up on my Rev.B iMac, but it does on my new G4 iMac (both running 10.1.3). On the older one, there isn't even an "options" tab in the Energy Saver pref pane. Any idea why? Hardware limitation?



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waking for cron jobs
Authored by: a1291762 on Mar 12, '02 05:32:33PM

> Actually, the cron jobs will run at 3:15am even if the machine is asleep. In the
> Energy Saver pref pane, under options, there is a check box to wake for admin
> tasks.

Are you sure? I don't see such a box on my iMac DV 400. There's a "Wake for network administrative access".

I can't get the cron jobs to run unless the computer is still on.



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waking for cron jobs
Authored by: 128K Mac on Mar 12, '02 11:23:10PM

Different Macs have different hardware when it comes to Energy Saver pref pane.

My G4 DP 450 has the option mentioned available. Sure you looked under the "options" tab of the pref pane? A slot loading iMac G3/400 DV is a kissing cousin to my old (Gig) G4 DP.



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Can't wait
Authored by: koen on Mar 12, '02 11:21:09AM

Hi,

Check out the Learning the OSX Terminal series on http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/. The latest issue (3) shows how to configure sendmail without changing the permissions.


- Koen.



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