Re: tools.jar is missing

Subject: Re: tools.jar is missing
From: Jim Cushing <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 08:44:02 -0700 (PDT)

Hey, don't forget that Mac OS X also comes with this handy utility called Sherlock 2. This is still a Mac, after all!

On Wednesday, 26, 2002, at 06:17PM, John D Verne <email@hidden> wrote:

>On Wednesday, June 26, 2002, at 12:13 PM, email@hidden wrote:
>> John D Verne added:
>> |Don't forget "locate". Less brute force than find (read: quicker). As
>> |long as the file has been there for a week or so, locate will find it.
>>
>> It will if the weekly "cron" scripts are run. If his Mac is off when
>> they're supposed to run (at 4:30 AM), they won't, so the "locate" index
>> won't be updated. (If it's asleep, I suspect they won't run, either.)
>> He can run the scripts directly using the MacJanitor program
>> (http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/macjanitor.html).
>>
>
>Agreed, which is why I said "week or so". The chances of it running a
>few times a month are pretty good, if you keep developer hours and leave
>your mac on all the time. At least, the cron job ran on my machine at
>least twice in the first month I had it.
>
>If not, running /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb by hand every once in
>awhile is not a huge problem. Beats a global find against 20Gb of files.
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