system cleaning

[gocatgo]

HI-
Is it useful and/or necessary to 'clean' osx? using eg mainmenu or maccleanse?

Are the daily weekly scripts built in and run on cron anyway?

Would caches build forever then? they can't so the system already has a mechanism to auto-clean

What about system/user log files? Same deal?

Thanks,
-gcg

 

[MisterMe]

HI-
Is it useful and/or necessary to 'clean' osx? using eg mainmenu or maccleanse?

Are the daily weekly scripts built in and run on cron anyway?

Would caches build forever then? they can't so the system already has a mechanism to auto-clean

What about system/user log files? Same deal?

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If you want to get into the UNIX roots of MacOS X, then I would suggest that you study up-to-date Darwin documentation. Left alone, MacOS X will pretty much take care of itself. A prime example is cron. Apple has supplanted inet, xinet, rc, crond, at and other system utilities with launchd. launchd eliminates the need to manually run the periodic tasks.

 

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Is it useful and/or necessary to 'clean' osx? using eg mainmenu or maccleanse?

Necessary? No, it is not.

"Useful?" That's completely subjective. Some will say "yes." Others will say "maybe." I say "no." Don't be "proactive" with your system -- let it do its job, and only go into "repair mode" when there's a problem (*if* there's a problem).

OS X, like MisterMe said, takes complete care of itself.