Maintidget Widget to view last run dates of maintenance scripts & run them.
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Widget to view last run dates of maintenance scripts & run them. Maintidget (Maintenance Scripts Widget) gives you a Dashboard Widget which provides the following functions:· Display the last time the daily, weekly, and monthly OS X Maintenance Scripts (a.k.a Cron Tasks) were run.· Run the OS X Maintenance Scripts on demand. Just enter your administrator password and click the Run Scripts button. Maintidget is the first Dashboard Widget to provide this feature!· New in version 1.1: Select which scripts you want to run (the daily script must be run at all times).· New in version 1.2: Now works with admin accounts that don't have a password assigned.· New in version 1.3: Click Daily/Weekly/Monthly labels to open logs in the Console. Check for updates using a link in the widget. Slick redesign by Jason Jacques that includes multiple skins!· New in version 1.4: New authentication logic should reduce false-negatives when running scripts and should also help those with blank passwords.Now you can keep tack of when your Mac runs the scripts, and force them to run in case you need to. These maintenance scripts perform the following tasks:Please note that the weekly script can take a long time to run (up to 10 minutes depending on the speed of the computer). During this time the "Running Scripts" message will show in Maintidget. Please do not refresh the widget during this time, as this will remove the "Running Scripts" message which will automatically remove itself when the scripts are finished running. Here are some key features of "Maintidget": Daily: · Removes old logs. · Removes scratch and junk files (temporary files). · Removes scratch fax files. · Backs up NetInfo data. · Checks subsystem status. · Cleans mail queue. · Gathers account statistics. · Cleans up asl.log. · Rotates logs: system. Weekly: · Rebuilds locate database. · Rebuilds whatis database. · Rotates logs: ftp, lpr, mail, netino, ipfw, ppp, secure. Monthly: · Runs login accounting. · Rotates logs: wtmp, install, fax. What's New in This Release: · Better parsing of log files. · Passwords with special characters should be accepted more often.

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