Simple Question: How to Tell When a Tasks has been ran

[smogsy]

Hi we all know OSX keeps it self nice & neat, with automated maintenance tasks

The question is: How can i tell when OSX has done its maintenance?
I thought it would be in console but unsure of the task name.

In Windows it would be in Event log.

I hope you can answer my question 🙂

 

[Mumford]

The output from the daily periodic task is stored in /var/log/daily.out... weekly in /var/log/weekly.out and monthly in /var/log/monthly.out. Looks like the start time for each task is logged.

 

[celticpride678]

You could download Onyx and then head over to the Maintenance tab to see when all the scripts where last run.

 

[Gregg2]

The output from the daily periodic task is stored in /var/log/daily.out... weekly in /var/log/weekly.out and monthly in /var/log/monthly.out.

And those are invisible files?
Spotlight didn't find anything with an entry of "daily.out"

Just curious.

 

[Mumford]

Looks like /var/log is excluded from spotlight searches. You'd have to use Console.app or a terminal to view them.