Mac OS X House Keeping

Having been a linux weenie for a few years now I had become accustomed to running various house keeping jobs on a regular basis and I wanted to do the same thing on my new PowerBook.

In particular, I use locate for quickly finding files, which to be of any use, requires the the indexer (updatedb) to be run periodically. A quick grep through the man pages and I discovered the OS X version was /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb so the next step was to get it to run as a batch job.

Whilst searching for the appropriate place to put my daily system cron jobs (/etc/daily.local), I ran across this little gem in /etc/daily: # Clean up NFS turds. May be useful on NFS servers.