MaintenanceWidget

About MaintenanceWidget
This little widget helps maintain your Mac OS X system (10.4 or later) It does this using the power of dashcode and some handy terminal commands that it executes for you.
Features
- Runs unix maintenance scripts (aka cron scripts)
- Forces the trash to empty
- Repairs disk permissions on the startup drive
- Resets the Finder and Toggles Hidden Files
- Here is what the maintenance or cron scripts actually do..

Daily Script
- Removes old logs and temporary files
- Rotates system.log

Weekly Script
- Rebuilds locate and whatis databases
- Rotates logs for ftp, lpr, mail, netinfo, ipfw, ppp, secure

Monthly Script
- Runs login accounting
- Rotates logs for wtmp, install, fax

Common Questions: Password? it wants your system password (the one you login with). Doesn’t work with passwords that contain spaces (sorry).

What’s New in this Version
- Bug Fixes, better password handling, and it now toggles hiding/showing hidden files.