Re: WO Deployment Server Maintenance tasks

steve stout <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.webobjects.admin
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My question is, have you ever looked at what permissions have actually 
been changed when you run this?  I rarely ever see any of the 
permissions changed so I don't see how it would make any difference.


On Jan 20, 2004, at 9:31 PM, Kieran Kelleher wrote:

> IMHO, I think running permissions repair as a Cron job is important on 
> any "busy" Mac OS X system, however I have not yet validated whether 
> it is essential on a OS X Server dedicated to a single function.
>
> I suppose you could run Permissions Repair right now using Disk 
> Utility on your server and if you get any permissions reported as 
> being repaired, then I guess it is important to automate this. Simply 
> add a cron job to the system crontab for the following command line
>
> diskutil repairPermissions / >> pathToLogFile.txt
>
> I recommend weekly and I recommend executing at a quiet time, 
> otherwise renice it so it has lower CPU priority.
>
> Personally, I have this cron run every night at midnight on my 
> development machine and it really makes all apps run smoothly all the 
> time.
>
> I see that you are on 10.2 .............. if 10.2 Server, then 
> enabling journaling may improve file system reliability
>
> See this article for maintenance tips
>
> http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/11/21/maintenance.html
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> ____________________________________
> OS X 10.3.2 /  WO 5.2.2 / MySQL 4.0.16
>
>
> On Jan 16, 2004, at 1:54 AM, Srinivasulu wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>  
>> We have a very complex and huge WebObjects 5.2 applications deployed 
>> on Mac OS X 10.2, i wanted to know what all maintanence tasks can be 
>> done to make sure the Operating System and applications are running 
>> 24/7 without any problems.
>>  
>> Right now i have some cronjobs running which deletes log files which 
>> are older than one week(like deleting the WebObjects logs, 
>> Applications logs, systems logs and apache log files). Will this have 
>> any adverse affect to my deployment server. Do i need to do any other 
>> maintenace related to WebObjects and Mac OS X. 
>>  
>> Thanks for your valuable reponses and advice.
>>
>>  
>> Srini
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