Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Named Darwin, it has a Mach kernel and FreeBSD heritage.
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Why does my Mountain Lion computer have Apache 2.2.22 shut down almost as soon as it starts?
[Sun Apr 21 17:29:00 2013] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Sun Apr 21 17:30:15 2013] [warn] Init: Session Cache is not configured [hint: SSLSessionCache]
httpd: Could not reliably determine ...
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default wordsize in UNIX/Linux
I was inspecting the preprocessed output of my C program and happened to look at the header file wordsize.h
It is located in
/usr/include/i386-linux-gnu/bits/wordsize.h
the file contains only one ...
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How to install tar file (jhead) on Mac or Linux machine
I'm new to Linux and tar balls and was wondering how to properly install them on a Mac or Linux machine. I would prefer to know how to install on a mac but I just need some help understanding them. I ...
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Calendar.vim E492: Not an editor command: Calendar
I am trying to install the calendar.vim plugin on mac osx snow leopard running gvim. I have pathogen.vim installed, so I followed the instructions on github to install calendar.vim from the terminal:
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Installing required libs/frameworks/packages for compilation on OSX
I'm trying to compile SmartSim for OSX Lion, and at the moment I'm at the ./configure stage.
Here is a dump of what I've managed to get so far:
$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... ...
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Losing smtp/pop3/imap access
I have a server running OS X. This server connects to another server, this other one CentOS 6.3, from times to times to collect mail messages over POP3/IMAP and also to send mails using SMTP (exim, on ...
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“or” in shell glob
I want to ls the files containing the substring "s1r", "s2r", "s3r" or "s19r" in their filenames.
I'm almost there!
Botched attempts:
ls *s[123][9?]r*
The above gives me only files including the ...
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How to map terminal shortcut from CTRL-M to another combination
I read in another post that you can type CtrlJ or CtrlM instead of the Return key in the terminal, which is great. But what I want to be able to do, is change that to another combination, for example: ...
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Unix vs Mac OS X, Notable Difference
I was searching Unix vs OS X. I found a notable difference at
From http://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-questions-answers/919-mac-osx-vs-unix.html
OS X is a evolutionary kernel from the MACH and BSD ...
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Execute multiple bash commands on the output of find
I want to execute some commands using the find -exec option, but I'm not sure what' wrong with this code. Currently, it's only processing the first find result, then getting stuck. I'm using bash in ...
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How to mimic bash tab completion behavior on OS X when using Linux
I'm an OS X user who's used to ssh'ing into various Linux machines. Recently, I installed Ubuntu on one of our servers and have noticed very different tab completion behavior in bash. Among other ...
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Files replaced with Finder on Mac creating a copy on Samba's .recycle
Scenario:
Ad Agency with Samba Server and multiple Mac users, 0 Windows users.
vfs objects = recycle
recycle:keeptree = yes
recycle:repository = /storage/files/.recycle/%U
Workflow:
Before start ...
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mpg321 doesn't autoplay songs
I'm using mpg321 on OSX and I just try to play my songs with mpg321 *.mp3. It plays fine but doesn't play the next song automatically. I have to press some key for it to play which is kind of ...
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How to troubleshoot failed X11 forwarding with ssh?
When I try to establish an X11-forwarding connection to myserver, I get the following error:
% ssh -X myserver xlogo
X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
X11 connection rejected ...
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Rsync seems to back up files that haven't been opened or changed
I have started using rsync to back some data on my mac to an external HD. It works really well, but I have noticed something odd. Every time I run the command, I get a list of files that haven't been ...
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programming an Atmel Board with a USB to Serial converter, in Eclipse
I am actually trying to program an Atmel Evk1100 board directly from Mac OSX.
My MCU is UC3A0512
I used to use Atmel32 Studio on Windows, but It looks like there no Mac Version.
So, from what I've ...
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A real non-“better touch tools” solution for select-to-copy on Mac OS X
I recently moved to Mac. I am missing my X11 copy-paste style.
I can't find a way to exactly emulate X11 behavior "select-to-copy", "middle-click-to-paste" globally on Mac OS X.
I am aware that this ...
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remove duplicate files
On my Mac OS X 10.6.7, iTunes duplicated every single file in my music library. Now I have 3,840 files instead of 1,920. The problem is that iTunes didn't simply duplicate the whole folder, but each ...
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Unix mail command not sending email
I'm having trouble trying to send email with the unix mail command.
Currently I'm trying this:
echo "something" | mail -s "test mail" [email protected]
But when I check my email, I haven't received ...
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Keep the ssh session
I am using Macbook developing a client application.
I want to access server logs, so I opened a shell terminal and established a ssh connection to the server and access the log file there by ...
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Installing Windows 7 fails on Mountain Lion [migrated]
What I want
I'm trying to install Windows 7 with bootcamp(Version 5.0.2 (462)) on Mountain Lion(10.8.3).
The problem
I get this error message upon opening bootcamp and clicking continue:
The ...
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Transferring Files SSH SCP Error Message: 'Stdin: is not a tty'
I am using a Macbook SSH terminal and generated RSA key pairs and uploaded remote id_rsa.pub with approved permissions. I can connect with remote Apache web server. I can create, open, move, modify ...
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MPD error on OSX: “problems setting volume”
Getting this error when trying to set volume with MPC on OSX:
error: problems setting volume
Here's a snippet of my .mpdconf:
audio_output {
type "osx"
name "OSX"
mixer_type "software"
}
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Why is ./filename required to run executable script? [duplicate]
After creating a Python script file, test.py, in my home directory, and running chmod +x test.py to make it executable, and placing #!usr/bin/env as the file header, I expected to be able to run the ...
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Can't use peewee on Mac OS X Mountain Lion
I am getting an error when I run Python programs that imports peewee:
ImportError: No module named peewee
The same program works fine under Ubuntu 12.04.
I used pip to install peewee, and it ...
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Find out where $PATH got corrupted
I'm using OSX Mountain Lion 10.8.2
$echo $PATH prints this:
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/X11/bin:/Users/myusername/.rvm/bin
I've commented out everything in ~/.bash_profile ...
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rsync a mac on linux box, --delete not working
I have a mac Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0. One of its folders is called source. I want to back it up on a remote linux folder called destination.
My problem: whatever I try, I cannot make the rsync ...
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Make Mac executable with MonoDevelop
I am on Ubuntu, using MonoDevelop and I would like to port my applications to Mac OS X. I have found mkbundle on this question, but that only makes Linux executables I believe.
I would also like to ...
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A bunch of files have 777 permissions
I have been learning Python and Bash scripting, and I up to now I have given my scripts 777 permissions. Having learned more about how to set permissions, and knowing this is a bad idea, I ran the ...
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Replacing Ubuntu 12.04 with Backtrack 5 R3 dual boot with Mac OSX Mountain Lion
I installed ubuntu 12.04 to run alongside my osx on my 2011 macbook air and would like to remove ubuntu completely to boot replace it with backtrack. I deleted the partition where ubuntu was located ...
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Cannot execute binary file on Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5
I want to execute phylocon on a mac OS X lion but after changing the path and making the file executable, I get the error 'cannot execute binary file'. But the steps that I took to running the command ...
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OS X setting environment variables
I have OSX 10.8.2 with ZSH as my shell and iTerm as a terminal (don't know if the last thing is relevant). I have to mention that I'm relatively new to OSX.
I'm trying to set up some environment ...
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zsh completion: getting file names from a specific directory
OK, a little background: I use a Mac, and I do as much as possible in the CLI.
In particular, I frequently pop in a USB stick, cp or mv a file over, and then immediately wish to eject (unmount and ...
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git diff displays colors incorrectly
In order to get coloured output from all git commands, I set the following:
git config --global color.ui true
However, this produces an output like this for git diff, git log
whereas commands ...
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IPFW Port Forwarding
This is my situation: I want to connect to an OpenVPN server from my office (we're using a proxy, only ports 80 and 443 are allowed).
Server IP address is: 176.31.250.232:843
My static IP address ...
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How to revert to the original config files in OS X?
How can I revert config files in OS X 10.8.2 to their original state? I want to discard any changes made to /etc/hosts, /etc/sshd_config, etc.
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Tmux status bar question
I'm fairly new to tmux and to truly master and learn it, I decided to make myself a fresh .tmux.conf
I was wondering, though, if it's possible to hide a path in the status bar.
For example, I have ...
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Unix: find directory filenames listed in a text file and move to new directory
I'm a command line novice trying to figure out the appropriate command to execute the following within the Terminal in Mac OS X.
Assuming I've placed all files in the same directory, I want to ...
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How are default permissions determined (on OS X)?
My (limited) understanding of basic Unix is that any files that are created will be created based on the permissions of the creating user. In particular, the group assigned will be the creating user's ...
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What permissions should I set if I'm the only user?
I'm the only user on a OS X machine and am wondering what the best practice is for setting permissions on my sensitive files. Specifically, are there reasons to prefer one of the following
-rw------- ...
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Do BSD sockets give better performance than others eg. POSIX and other? [closed]
I am searching cross-platform techniques to write client-server applications on Mac. I used BSD sockets, Cocoa APIs but I need to know which would be better at performance.
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Why does “User Contributed Perl Documentation” show up when I look for 'man' pages
When I
man -f <some string>
in addition to the expected Unix man pages, I get a bunch of odd looking entries that all have the header "User Contributed Perl Documentation". For example
man ...
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Installing Ruby on Mac OS X
I had ruby installed in /usr/local/bin/ but it was outdated, so I installed newer version using brew. Now I have two installations of ruby in different dirs. Should I remove one? And how do I update ...
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Print files with file size less than 100 bytes
Basically this script is just supposed to print out the file size and the name of all files in a directory that are under 100 bytes. This script I wrote works perfectly on my Ubuntu, but wont work on ...
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Does Windows recognize Linux's symbolic links?
I was just wondering how a Windows system handles symbolic links. My best guess is that it will not recognize them, but I'm not entirely sure.
Also, what do Macs do when confronted by one?
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Read umask for a user
Plenty of examples on how to set umask for a user... but how do you read (or uncover) the default umask for a given user (say the logged in user)
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Tool to compare files on one disk with registry information on another?
Been a long time since I got very far under the hood in Unix so I'm probably not even using proper terminology when I say 'registry,' but here's the situation.
I have a disk thats dying. Lots of i/o ...
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Installing gcc without root?
I'm running OSX, and I don't have root, or an existing compiler. Is there any way I can install gcc?
Are there official or trusted unofficial mach-o binaries that can be downloaded for a certain ...
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FHS differences between OS X, Linux and FreeBSD
I've read that there is a different behavior between FreeBSD and Linux with the /usr/local, in FBSD ports are installed there, in Linux not, can someone explain more on this?
I'd like to know where ...
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Find files given an exact filename with mdfind
Is there a way to ask mdfind to search for filenames with an exact filename ?
At some point in a pipe I have this:
(filenames are produced here) | while read f; do mdfind -name "$f" | grep -E "/$f";
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