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How to specify group id for a user-defined group
When I set up my accounts in Snow Leopard Server, I was able to give an explicit group id to my user-defined groups using the old Workgroup Manager. Now that I've updated to Mountain Lion Server, I ...
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Reason why applications aren't stored in the Home-Folder?
I wonder why Apple don't put all applications in an applications folder inside the Home-Folder. So they could offer a hole new mac for each user.
Every file is user specific, except for the ...
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“opensnoop” utility doesn't work with spaces between filenames, how to fix?
I use "opensnoop"
/usr/bin/opensnoop
to show all files which are opened from different processes.
But when I want to specific a file with
sudo opensnoop -n "directory/filename"
i'm getting ...
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How i can log various information of files in directory?
I'm looking for a way to get the following information via AppleScript:
all the information ls provides including the creation date/time of a file or folder
MD5 hash, Finder labels and ...
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Deeper knowledge of os x? [closed]
I want to gain deeper knowledge of os x, which books/courses/forums should i take? All books that i have seen was about how to save your document in Pages.
First of all, i will learn bash but what's ...
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Where is the New Oxford American Dictionary stored?
I'm trying to build a command line tool to look up definitions of words, it's only a dummy app for me to practise my C++ skills.
I know there is a list of words stored at /usr/share/dict - but what ...
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Opening an OS X disk image with a launchd agent while the display is sleeping
I created a launchd agent which opens a non-password-protected sparse disk image (and mounts its solitary volume) daily at 2:45AM in preparation for backup software to write to the volume. The launchd ...
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What system is more customizable/open - Mac OS X or Mac OS 9? [closed]
As Mac OS (X) is generally considered as less customizable and less open system than Windows or Linux, I wonder if this is true for Max OS X which is as we know based on Unix. Maybe in fact Mac OS X ...
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Copying ISO file to USB drive in OS X?
I have tried to copy an ISO file to a USB drive. I am unable to do it with Disk Utility. How can I copy the ISO file to a USB drive?
But I get the below. I have enough space in the 16GB USB drive ...
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How can I get Unix (brew/xcode/vim) acting like Unix under Lion?
I "upgraded" from Snow Leopard with Homebrew and vim both chugging along happily, to Lion. Now vim hangs/segfaults, and when I invoke brew, it complains xcode is missing, and continues to do so after ...
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SSH Key Error, sudo works fine
When I try to ssh (using ssh user@server.com) into my server at home from either the local network or from outside, I get the following error:
But if I use sudo ssh user@server.com, it works with no ...
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where is the system wide $PATH set in OSX?
I'd like to set the $PATH variable for all users but don't find where it is defined.
Having no $PATH export in my .bash_profile I have this
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Proper group ID (gid) for Lion?
If you create a brand new admin account in Lion, the following will be your id and group memberships (from $ id [new Lion account] | perl -lne 's/ /\n/g; s/,/\n\t/g; print;'):
uid=504(lt)
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How can the 'mail' command be used?
I've had my first Mac for about five months now. Though, even when I was a full-on Windows user, I never did things through a command line; I was pretty much for the GUI all-the-way..
But now that I ...
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Is there a way to convert audio files in Mac OS X or the command line without using iTunes?
Now, I know I can use iTunes to convert music. But it's quite a pain.. All I'm asking is: Is there anything built into OS X or UNIX for converting files? Right now I simply want to convert .mp4 to ...
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Why does my Terminal window close automatically?
I need to use my Terminal window on a MacBook Air but it closes about 10 seconds after I open it. Is there a setting or is it possible another program is causing it to close? If I type quickly I can ...
