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Why would opening the DiagnosticReports folder be preferred to using Console.app?
I already searched Ask Different for "Console.app" and "crash logs".
I was recently searching for a way to access OS X crash logs because I couldn't remember the application that pulled them up. All ...
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wifi.log disappeared?
I had some trouble with my wifi connection so I figured, I could switch on logging for airport via
sudo /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport debug ...
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Parental Controls flooding console and blocking site accidentally?
My entire console is currently messages fron parentalcontrolsd. I got 12 messages, nearly identical, at 6:02:05. At the same time, a site was randomly "not in the approved list in parental controls", ...
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Why does “ATSFontFindFromContainer failed: count = 2” appear thousands of times in my system.log?
Just now, I looked at Console Messages and system.log in the Console application. I saw thousands of repetitions of messages like the following:
Dec 30 00:01:54 MyName-2 com.apple.quicklook[39867]:
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Does Console.app also log passwords?
I'm a newb of OS X (or any flavor of *Nix for that matter) so this came to mind lately.. As the Console.app logs every single process that's running, does to also mean passwords & such are also ...
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Where is system.log located? (In the filesystem, outside of Console.app)
Where is the system.log file actually located? I know of course that I can view its contents in Console.app, but I just want to know where this text file is actually located. Or is it an almagamation ...
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Console.app bounces but does not start
In a (possibly related) recent question I outline some background to a decidedly unhealthy Mac Book Pro (patched up to date with the latest 10.6 updates).
A suggestion was to try to see what clues ...
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MacUpdate check running every hour?
I have MacUpdate installed (which I got with their Spring Bundle).
I noticed that it tries to check for updates every hour for some reason. The app itself is not running so it must be some agent or ...
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What is the difference between console.log and system.log?
I am checking system logs via the Console utility. I am wondering what the difference is between the console.log and system.log file?
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Setting a custom log
I have to get all the chromium and firefox info logs out of /var/log/system.log and into a nice quiet /var/log/{chromium,firefox}.log.
However I can neither recall or find how to set that in ...
