I’ve been having some problems getting day Machine to work properly, and I’ve grown tired of opening the day Machine System Preferences pane just to see whether date Machine executed when it was supposed to. Using GeekTool — which runs well on Leopard — I’m now able to get a regular status report effortlessly, which has eased

my mind considerably since I now know duration Machine is working properly.

Create a new shell entry in GeekTool, and enter the following command:

that scans the system log file for…

Original post by Erica Sadun