Running Maintenance Scripts

Anyone have a suggestion as to what program might be best for Leopard? 'Maintenance' (with the wrench icon) and Cocktail, and Onyx won't work on 10.5 ????!!!
Any other programs available?
Thanks

ChicagoLarry,
I was curious about the same thing, so I've typed the following in my Terminal window to see what has run and when:
ls -la /private/var/log/*.out.
What I've found is a bit odd...
With Macaroni turned off, the scripts seem to run on my iMac after it has been awakened from sleep--that's good. However, they don't seem to run on my Powerbook after it's been awakened...I don't understand why...
Also, I had a problem with the latest version of Macaroni initially running the weekly script on my iMac... It tried to run the script but couldn't seem to complete it. After I manually ran the scripts (sudo periodic daily weekly monthly), then Macaroni seemed to accomplish them ok. (I've had Macaroni turned off on both my computers until I can verify that (1) it's needed, and (2) it properly runs daily, weekly, and monthly scripts...)
So, to answer your question: The definitive answer is either, "I don't know," or "It depends."
More research to do!!
Woo Hoo!
Bob

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Oops; I had a senior moment.
The correct command to run maint scripts is:
sudo periodic ........
sorry for the dumb question.

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I am trying to run the maintenance scripts on my laptop for the first time. I go to Terminal type in "sudo periodic daily weekly monthly" and hit return. A warning message pops up the some data may be lost.... and the the Password prompt comes up. I back up consistently so I just want to run the scripts since it has never been done. However, when I try to type in my password, NOTHING types. I hit return and tried again, but nothing. Can someone please help me figure out what is wrong and if there is any other maintenance I need to do to the system?
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You don't need to use any utility, or perform any procedure, to make sure OS X's built-in maintenance tasks have run under OS X 10.5 and later.
OS X 10.5 will run its cron jobs automatically (actually, they are no longer handled by the UNIX facility "cron", they are now handled by a similar facility called "launchd". if that means anything to you) whether you have left your computer on all night or not. You no longer need a utility to run missed maintenance as of OS X 10.5. It will run automatically at the next available opportunity. Actually, this was the case as of OS X 10.4, but a bug kept the maintenance routines from running more than once per restart under OS X 10.4. This was fixed in OS X 10.5
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6552347
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According to your description, you get errors when double-clicking on the Maintenance Plan. Based on my research, this issue could be due to that DTS Package is corrupt or missing. You could follow the steps below to troubleshoot the issue.
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Yes, Apple fixed that issue that they would only run in the early AM when most users have their machines off/sleeping and clog the machine up.
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For those people stating that no one needs to run these scripts or that they're somehow dangerous, please reconsider before posting inaccurate things like that.
I haven't seen anyone stating that the scripts are dangerous. Clearly, they aren't. They are, however, unnecessary if the system is rebooted every day. The only exception is the periodic daily script 100.clean-logs, which deletes symbolic links in /Library/Logs/CrashReporter to crash and panic reports in /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports older than 60 days. The reports themselves are deleted by a different process. Conceivably, if this script didn't run for a long enough time, the boot volume might fill up with broken symlinks to deleted crash reports. How long would that take?
Well, a symbolic link takes up 77 bytes of storage space. Storage devices, however, allocate space in minimum units of one sector, which is usually 512 bytes. Some of the newer 3 TB hard drives have a 4096-byte sector size. So let's make some worst-case assumptions. Your boot drive is 3 TB, and you have only 1% of that space free, which is 30 GB. You generate 100 crash reports a day -- those being only crashes of system processes, of course, not user processes, which are logged to a different place. So your volume is filling up with symbolic links at the rate of about 400 KB a day. At that rate, it would take only about 75 years to fill it up completely.
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Freeware utility to run the system's daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance scripts.
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I am using Macaroni which runs Unix maintenance script every time I start the computer. At night the cpmputer is shut off. Do I really need to run these scripts with Snow Leopard ?

I know people have weighed in on this before.
sudo periodic all
that is all and no I don't leave mine on, or run them daily, in fact hardly at all. But I do other things to keep the system in top shape.
as long as the utility is certified compatible, you are fine. I think Onyx, SL Cache Cleaner and others can also automatically schedule cron to run next time, I just don't do anything automatic.
Every time you start? or once a day? some scripts are only weekly and monthly anyway.

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In my old iBook I used cronX (I think that's the name) to set the unix maintenance scripts to run when the computer is likely to be awake. I don't know that those things bought me anything, but can't hurt, right?
My problem - I'd like to get a current version for the new MacBook (wow! - way cool!) but neither Google nor VersionTracker have a listing for any version of cronX. I recall it came from somewhere in Europe so perhaps that's why? Also have heard of MacJanitor and maybe a couple of other apps that will do a similar function.
Can anyone point me to a source for cronX or similar?
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Oops - got lucky searching for something else!
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