doDaily

By: Joe Szedula

1. This script runs Apple's "Daily" maintenance script normally run early in the morning.
2. You will be prompted for your system's administrator password when running this script.

on run
   set lf to ASCII character 10
   set StartUpDisk to path to startup disk as text
   set tmpCmdFile to StartUpDisk & "private:tmp:tmpDaily"
   
   set myFileRef to (open for access file tmpCmdFile with write permission)
   write "/bin/echo '' >> /private/var/log/daily.out" & lf to myFileRef
   write "/bin/date >> /private/var/log/daily.out" & lf to myFileRef
   write "/bin/echo '' >> /private/var/log/daily.out" & lf to myFileRef
   write "/bin/sh /etc/daily >> /private/var/log/daily.out" to myFileRef
   close access myFileRef
   
   set tmpCmdFile to POSIX path of tmpCmdFile as string
   
   set cmd to "/bin/sh " & tmpCmdFile
   with timeout of 1800 seconds
      do shell script cmd with administrator privileges
      
      do shell script "rm " & tmpCmdFile
      
      display dialog "Done 'Daily'" buttons {"OK"} default button "OK" giving up after 5
   end timeout
end run