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In Mountain Lion why do remote shells via ssh do NOT inherit the environment of the launchd parent process?
When logging in to my Mountain Lion Mac remotely via ssh I do not get the same PATH variable as when I open a shell locally: The local shell inherits its environment as expected from launchd and ...
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Automating Python with launchd & permissions
I setup a Python script to run automatically using launchd (via a .plist)
I wanted this particular script to always run, whether a user was logged in or not, so I put the .plist that "launches" it ...
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How to mount a RAM disk on startup?
I'm trying to mount a RAM disk on startup with this:
/Users/Aram/Development/Tools/ramdisk.sh
diskutil erasevolume HFS+ "RamDisk" `hdiutil attach -nomount ram://800000`
com.aram.ramdisk.plist
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Editing System/Library files with Property List Editor (PLE)
I want to update the schedule in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locate.plist. I have unlocked the file in Finder but the Property List Editor is giving me:
The file ...
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Make locator.updatedb run daily on Snow Leopard w/o hacking /System/Library?
On Snow Leopard, the locate database is updated once a week by a launchd job, /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locate.plist. I'd like to make the updater run daily, but AFAIK it's considered ...
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How to automate execution locate.updatedb by using a bash script
I am looking for a bash set of commands that will enable me to schedule the execution of /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb once every day.
Please respond only with a set of command line commands, because ...
