Mac Logs Me Out

First off, Hi! You guys were recommended as a place where I can get helped out of this crazy predicament I'm in. ...

A bit odd having to try and converse in the third person but I'll do my best from what he has told me so far .... ...

checked logs in DHCP server, showed repeated "DHCP discover" from iBook, iBook IP stayed 169.254.x. ...

Mac OS X does all the maintenance things that Onyx does, only automatically. Why put me through the absolute agony of launching a program and clicking a button? ...

My guess is that the user is the admin user of the computer, and hence when the user enters their password and logs in, that all locked settings automatically unlock. ...

and I figured out how to connect from my desktop 17" G4 1. ...

UNIX does it all for me. It'll clear the caches when it's good and ready, and it'll rotate the logs and rebuilt the locate database when it needs to. ...

I do not have a MAC but had a similar problem. ...

thanks for the added blurb mentioning that finder doesn't like too many large files. i spent days trying to figure out why i had my proccesor running at mach 99.9 i can now delete the 5,000 samples i took trying to figure why. i went through logs and logs... ...

I guess I should point out that I am not a security wonk. I am a programmer. ...