Do I still have to run maintenance & cron scripts?

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Do I still have to run maintenance & cron scripts?

Do I still have to run maintenance scripts or does Apple take care of them? If I do is there an inexpensive effective app. to do this automatically for me? Thanks.

Posted on Dec 2, 2011 1:58 AM

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Allan Eckert

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Dec 2, 2011 2:02 AM in response to Bernard Stay

No need to do that. Apple takes care of them.

Allan

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X423424X

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Dec 2, 2011 2:35 AM in response to Bernard Stay

If you machine is asleep when the periodic maintenance tasks are scheduled (3:15AM for daily, weekly and 5:30AM for monthly) they will be run shorly after your machine is wakes up. They are launchd LaunchDaemons now. Cron is no longer used for these. Still, as with cron, the tasks will not be performed if the machine was off at the scheduled time (reference).

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