[NMUG] NMUG Digest, Vol 63, Issue 4

[VALERIE HARDMAN]

Hi again
I looked up the further information address given by Alan (see below) and it includes this,

"[1] If you log out from your Mac OS X system and leave it with the Login Window displayed, your Mac can still enter sleep mode. When left at the Login Window, your Mac will enter sleep mode based on the settings specified by the last Admin user in System Preferences > Energy Saver. Therefore, if you want to leave your Mac with the Login Window displayed and still have the nightly Mac OS X maintenance routines run automatically, an Admin user must set System Sleep to Never in the System Preferences > Energy Saver > Sleep tab."

If I did this once a week would this be enough?  I did look at altering the time settings in Terminal or at least checking when the maintenance was last done but other postings made me concerned that something dire might happen.  The code to type in for checking the last maintenance was slightly different on the further information site than it was in Alan's posting.

If it is ok to simply set the computer to never sleep, what do I set?  Is it just the computer, or the computer and the display.  What do I put in the box for putting the hard disc to sleep whenever possible, at the moment this is ticked, would I have to untick this?
I know this is simple stuff compared to much of what is on the site, but I would be grateful for some advice,
thanks
Valerie




> The moral of this tale is that if your machines are
> normally either  
> off or asleep at 03:15 it would be a good idea to run the
> maintenance  
> scripts manually on a regular basis, or at the very least
> to check  
> when last they were run. Otherwise log files and other junk
> will clog  
> up the hard disc.
> 
> For further information see
> <http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/maintscripts.html 
>  >.
> 
> I hope this is helpful...
> 
> Alan Fry
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