What maintenance does Macaroni do?
When you install Macaroni, it has five standard maintenance jobs, described below. You can also add your own custom maintenance jobs. The standard Macaroni maintenance jobs are: • Daily Unix maintenance: Mainly concerned with cleaning up old temporary files created by the system and then left in place, such as those found in Unix’s “tmp” directories. This job also backs up the Netinfo database, and does several other things such as maintaining system log files and restarting the system log. Macaroni’s version of this job additionally cleans up old printer spool files left behind by CUPS, old Mac OS X installer logs, and old crash logs (if any), and provides more information about what it is doing and how much space has been saved. Daily maintenance usually takes just one or two minutes to run. This job does not require any configuration. • Weekly Unix maintenance: Does most of its work in rebuilding two system databases, the “locate” database used for fast file searches (with Unix’s “l
