There are many versions, or variants, of UNIX. Mac
OS X and Linux are variants of UNIX, and use many of UNIX??™s commands and internal
underpinnings, using its legendary stability as a base to build on.
460 How to Do Everything: Mac
2. In the interest of saving you from typing three different commands, you??™re going to run
all three scripts at once. At the command prompt, type the following exactly as you
see here:
sudo periodic daily weekly monthly
3. Read the warning if you must, but then proceed by pressing the RETURN key, typing your
admin password, and pressing RETURN again.
You will not have any visual clues that anything is happening because all the magic is
occurring behind the scenes. Your command prompt returns when the scripts have completed
their heroic deeds.
Optionally, you can run the scripts one at a time if you like. To do so, just type
sudo periodic daily
and press r et ur n. To run the other scripts, substitute weekly or monthly for daily.
A Clean Mac Is a Happy Mac!
Again with the car analogies??¦
Nobody wants to ride around in a car that??™s caked in mud on the outside and cheese sticks, corn
chips, and fountain drinks on the inside, right? And guess what? Nobody wants to use a computer
whose mouse buttons stick because of the icing you get on it from eating your morning doughnut
while checking email.
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