In article <jollyroger-CA91AD.08534212052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Jolly Roger <jollyroger@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > Namely, if I _never_ use periodic, will anything bad
> > happen, such as my belly-button falling out?
>
> The system "uses" periodic on its own. There's no need for your
> intervention.
Ahh, thanks. One less thing for me to worry about.
I generally ran periodic through all the daily, weekly,
and monthly routines, just prior to creating an image
backup of my entire internal disk drive.
Reason was, I had some hazy idea that periodic might
clean up some system files, leading to a smaller
(compressed) archive backup file.
Being the system does cleanup automatically, there may
be little or no gain for me to do cleanup manually.
Mark-
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