MaintenanceWidget


MaintenanceWidget

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"Life is 90% maintenance and 10% rip-off, unless you are working with the government then it is the other way around" - Dean Denslow

Widget by Brad Flaugher... Icons provided by Louie Mantia
Louie is a graphic designer... click here for his site

What does it do?

This little widget helps maintain your Mac OS X system (10.4 or later) It does this using the power of dashcode and some handy terminal commands that it executes for you. This piece of software is free and issued under the GPL (GNU General Public License) which you can read here. You can open this widget up in dashcode and edit it, or find the javascript and html sources in the .wdgt package so I will not include the source code because you kind of already have it. if you have a problem with this just contact me. I hope you enjoy this product and have no problems so you dont have to email me :). Thanks for downloading!

Features

  1. Runs unix maintenance scripts (aka cron scripts)
  2. Forces the trash to empty
  3. Repairs disk permissions on the startup drive
  4. Resets the Finder and Toggles Hidden Files

Here is what the maintenance or cron scripts actually do...

Daily Script

  1. Removes old logs and temporary files
  2. Rotates system.log

Weekly Script

  1. Rebuilds locate and whatis databases
  2. Rotates logs for ftp, lpr, mail, netinfo, ipfw, ppp, secure

Monthly Script

  1. Runs login accounting
  2. Rotates logs for wtmp, install, fax

COMMON QUESTIONS

  1. Password? it wants your system password (the one you login with).
  2. Doesn't work with passwords that contain spaces (sorry).
  3. Yes, there are slight animation issues with lighting up of tabs.

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