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- From: rtmd30@email.sps.mot.com (Greg Ferguson)
- Subject: Re: leaving macs running for extended periods
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- Organization: Motorola
- References: <C04tGK.12s@iapa.uucp%mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 06:49:56 GMT
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- In article <C04tGK.12s@iapa.uucp%mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu>,
- ctrbdo@iapa.uucp%mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu (bryan d oakley) wrote:
- >
- > What's the current wisdom regarding leaving a mac running 100% o' the
- > time? That's how I treat my Sun at work, to no ill effect. However,
- > we have a script on the Sun which reboots the machine (ala cron) once
- > a week to clean up the file system, etc. If there is no problem with
- > leaving the mac up, is there a way to have it automatically reboot now
- > and again, or is that even necessary?
-
- At work, it's our standard policy to leave the equipment on always. (That
- way we can work on them remotely after hours.)
-
- Chris Johnson (the author of GateKeeper) has a program called cron which
- acts much like the UNIX cron. It can reboot your Mac for you.
-
- Also, do a "ls shut*" the util directory at SUMEX-AIM. I think there's some
- programs that'll do what you want there.
-
- Greg Ferguson
- Programmer/Engineer
- Desktop Networking System
- SPS, World Marketing
- Motorola, Inc.
-