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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I can't seem to remove a file even after changing ownership and permissions
Haven't been here much. Mostly Stackoverflow. Anyway, I have a file that I can't remove.
I tried sudo rm files.db and got
Operation not permitted
Did sudo chown me: files.db
Then sudo chmod 777 ...
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Shorter timeout on I/O errors MacOS X
How do you set a shorter timeout value for read/write I/O errors on MacOSX?
We tend to get a few semicrashed disks and want to rsync the contents to a secure location, but when the file subsystem ...
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A simpler way of comparing md5 checksum?
After downloading a file that has a md5 checksum available I currently check it with
md5 *file* | grep *given_checksum*
e.g.
md5 file.zip | grep -i B4460802B5853B7BB257FBF071EE4AE2
but it seemed ...
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Defragment a USB flash drive on Mac OS X
I frequently create bootable flash drives and many a time large files need to be defragmented in order to boot. On Windows I'd used Contig/WinContig, but I must use OS X for the same purpose now. Are ...
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Errors building XScreensaver for X11 (and dependencies) on Mac
I'm building XScreensaver (the X11 version) on Mac OSX and I get the following errors while building/compiling it and its deps.
XScreensaver
terences-imac:xscreensaver-5.21 MAU$ make
gcc -pedantic ...
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Moving compiled assembly code to the boot sector of a USB device
I have written a simple operating system and I am trying to test it. I have VirtualBox installed and an eight GB flash drive, so I thought I would just use those. I am not sure how to make the USB ...
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Verbose option not working as intended [closed]
When I'm in terminal(OSX 10.8.3) and I wish to create a structured directory using the -v or -vp option, it does not verbose the new directory structures. For example:
$ mkdir -vp ...
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Problem building GPG
I'm having a problem building GPG on my system; when I try to run make it fairly well before it suddenly bails out with an error. Here's my latest result from running it:
make all-recursive
Making ...
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Is Mac OS X really SUS compliant?
Internet says that Mac OS X 10.8 has achieved certification to The Open Group UNIX® 03 standard and that it is a compliant system.
But a simple test with echo seems to indicate otherwise:
a) The ...
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sudo: unable to initialize PAM: No such file or directory
While trying to build the NumPy Python math module with Intel's Math Kernel Library (MKL) on OSX 10.8.3, I was running into some problems with the Accelerate and vecLib frameworks overriding the MKL. ...
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stat on an encrypted volume in osx takes a long time
My workstation is a MacBook Pro with an SSD. For security reasons, my main volume is encrypted.
I ran this command on a folder:
time find . -exec stat {} + >/dev/null
real 0m5.205s
user ...
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System Proxy Settings [duplicate]
I'm troubled by many types of proxies setting.
Currently I configure proxy on many places, and if I switch environment I have to unset proxies on same places.
What I have to change
Environment ...
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Convert ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 using OSX' .bash_profile
When running certain rails scripts in OSX' Terminal, I get warnings such as the following:
unable to convert "\xA9" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for ...
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Checking if I can reach some ports from my computer
Is there a terminal command or something on OSX that I can use to test if I can reach some ports on a remote server?
I know these ports are reachable on that server, because I can access them from ...
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Safe to change owner of OS X system folders?
I'm trying to get Homebrew to work. That program's diagnosis tool gives me these suggestions:
You should probably chown /usr/local/etc
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You should probably chown them:
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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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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.
