Author:
erics, October 9th, 2019
Use Case: Export Apple Reminders from MacOS application to cleaned plain text, i.e. remove unwanted spaces, blank lines and square brackets PROCEDURE Click on a single item in the MacOS Reminders app list Select All (either Command-a or use Edit->Select All) Copy (either Command-c or use Edit->Copy) Open Terminal Run cleanme Paste the copied reminders […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apple, array, input, List, MacOS, Multi, Multi-line, Multiline, Multiple, perl, Plain, Plaintext, Read, Reminders, STDIN, Terminal, text()
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Author:
erics, July 28th, 2019
When I upgraded to Mojave, my laptops were no longer able to connect to my desktop. Deeply frustrating. Long story short, combo of factors: – Mojave filesystems on disk now default to APFS containers – APFS filesystems can ONLY be shared out via SMB! – Hostname resolution in Mojave also seems broken So, the fix […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: AFS, APFS, Default, File sharing, Finder, howto, MacOS, Mojave, Sharing, SMB, tips
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Author:
erics, June 12th, 2019
The Problem Tried to install the latest version of cpan and got stuck. Tracked it down to the dependency module Mac::SystemDirectory which was failing to build:
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cpan[1]> install Mac::SystemDirectory Reading '/var/root/.cpan/Metadata' Database was generated on Sun, 09 Jun 2019 07:17:02 GMT Running install for module 'Mac::SystemDirectory' Running make for E/ET/ETHER/Mac-SystemDirectory-0.10.tar.gz Checksum for /var/root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/E/ET/ETHER/Mac-SystemDirectory-0.10.tar.gz ok Scanning cache /var/root/.cpan/build for sizes ............................................................................DONE CPAN.pm: Building E/ET/ETHER/Mac-SystemDirectory-0.10.tar.gz HASCOMPILEREZFt/TESTUSSI.c:2:10: fatal error: 'EXTERN.h' file not found #include "EXTERN.h" ^~~~~~~~~~ 1 error generated. Couldn't execute cc -g -pipe -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -fno-strict-aliasing -fstack-protector -Os "-I/System/Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE" -c HASCOMPILEREZFt/TESTUSSI.c -o HASCOMPILEREZFt/TESTUSSI.o: Inappropriate ioctl for device at Makefile.PL line 14. Requires a compiler Warning: No success on command[/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INC=-I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE] ETHER/Mac-SystemDirectory-0.10.tar.gz /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INC=-I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE -- NOT OK Running make test Make had some problems, won't test Running make install Make had some problems, won't install Failed during this command: ETHER/Mac-SystemDirectory-0.10.tar.gz : writemakefile NO '/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INC=-I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE' returned status 6400 |
The Solution Use the MacOS installer command to deploy the needed files:
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sudo installer -pkg /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Packages/macOS_SDK_headers_for_macOS_10.14.pkg -target / installer: Package name is macOS_SDK_headers_for_macOS_10.14 installer: Installing at base path / installer: The install was successful. |
The, rerunning the cpan install works:
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cpan[1]> install Mac::SystemDirectory ... Running make install Files found in blib/arch: installing files in blib/lib into architecture dependent library tree Installing /Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/Mac/SystemDirectory/SystemDirectory.bs Installing /Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/Mac/SystemDirectory/SystemDirectory.bundle Installing /Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level/Mac/SystemDirectory.pm Installing /usr/local/share/man/man3/Mac::SystemDirectory.3pm Appending installation info to /Library/Perl/Updates/5.18.2/darwin-thread-multi-2level/perllocal.pod ETHER/Mac-SystemDirectory-0.10.tar.gz /usr/bin/make install -- OK |
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: 10.14, CPAN, Error, extern.h, Fatal, Fatal Error, File not found, Header, headers, howto, Install, installer, Libraries, Library, MacOS, Mojave, not found, Package, perl, pkg, System, tips, update, upgrade, XCode
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Author:
erics, June 6th, 2019
Sonos was running just fine oon my MacOS Mojave iMac, then I had to force-quit it due to a system freeze. The Sonos app REFUSED to start, no matter what I tried, including uninstall/reinstall, full scrub of all files located, uninstaller software, reboots, cache cleaning and reboot with Onyx – NOTHING worked, and i was […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: Accessibility, MacOS, Mojave, Sonos
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Author:
erics, May 28th, 2019
I use csshX on a daily basis. The default layout on my screen for three nodes is one column with three rows, one per node. This layout is excellent for visual positioning, but does make it harder to read long output. For this purpose, I start csshX using the column quantity specifier -x and I […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apple, Column, csshX, Force, Horizontal, Mac, MacOS, macosx, Retile, Row, ssh, Terminal, Tile, Vertical
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Author:
erics, May 10th, 2019
I was getting rsync errors from one source host:
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Corrupted MAC on input. Disconnecting: Packet corrupt |
Finally tracked it down to the application “Little Snitch”. Needed to fully uninstall it and reboot to get the problem solved.
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: corrupt, Corrupted MAC on input, howto, Little Snitch, MacOS, macosx, Packet corrupt, rsync, Snitch, Snow Leopard, tips
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Author:
erics, February 16th, 2019
As of Mac OS X Lion 10.7, Terminal provides Services for opening a new terminal window or tab at the selected folder in Finder. They also work with absolute pathnames selected in text (in any application). You can enable these services with System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Services. Look for “New Terminal […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apple, Finder, howto, Keyboard, MacOS, macosx, Menu, Mojave, Open, Services, Terminal, tips, window
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Author:
erics, February 4th, 2019
Use the ssh-keygen command on a computer to which you’ve downloaded your private key .pem file; for example: First, ensure permissions will allow ssh-keygen to work: chmod 600 /path/to/the/file/your-key-pair.pem Then generate an RSA public key: ssh-keygen -y -f /path/to/the/file/your-key-pair.pem > your-key-pair.pub
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: .pem, .pub, Amazon, apple, AWS, cli, howto, key, key-pair, KeyPair, Linux, Mac, MacOS, macosx, Pubkey, public, Public Key, ssh-keygen, tips
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Author:
erics, November 18th, 2018
I installed an old version of Adobe software on my new Mac and as usual, it installed some daemons that are undesirable. Here is how I got rid of them via the Terminal. Note: Adobe installs daemons in the user context, so do this as your regular user login, not as root. shell> launchctl list […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: Adobe, apple, daemon, Disable, howto, Kill, launchctl, MacOS, macosx, Shell, Stop, Terminal, tips, Unload
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Author:
erics, November 28th, 2017
Launch System Preferences Select Users & Groups Select Login Options Select Join next to Network Account Server Select Open Directory Utility Click the lock and enter your password to make changes In the menu bar of Directory Utility, select Change Root Password Create a strong, unique password
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apple, Change, change password, Directory Utility, High Sierra, MacOS, Password, root, Sierra, System Preferences
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