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erics, August 12th, 2016 sudo /usr/sbin/installer -pkg /path/to/yourFile.pkg -target /
Categories: How-To's, Technology apple, cli, Command, Command line, howto, Install, installer, macosx, OSX, Package, pkg, sudo, Terminal, tips, Yosemite
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erics, July 28th, 2016 MacOSX 10.6.8 Snow Leopard running on a Mac Pro 2009 8-way After a system crash, using the backup drive, this error started to appear: dyld: shared cached file was build against a different libSystem.dylib, ignoring cache To fix it, execute the following in Terminal: sudo update_dyld_shared_cache -force As always, YMMV!
Categories: How-To's, Technology 10.6.8, apple, Cache, dyld, dylib, Force, howto, macosx, Shared cached file, Snow Leopard, sudo, tips, update_dyld_shared_cache
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erics, June 11th, 2016 As the root user, execute: “/Applications/Install OS X El Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia” –volume /Volumes/{USB_DRIVE_NAME_HERE}/ –applicationpath “/Applications/Install OS X El Capitan.app” Be sure to include the required double-quotes, or use backslashes to escape the spaces in the path. Full instructions may be found on the Apple site: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372 Turn on your Mac by pressing the power button Press […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology 10.10, 10.11, apple, boot, Bootable, Drive, El Capitan, Flash, howto, Mac, macosx, Reinstall, tips, USB, Yosemite
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erics, December 8th, 2015 As always, YMMV…
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#!/bin/bash # Usage: eject [fullpath to mount point] DISK="${1:-/Volumes/YourUSBFlashDriveName/}" df -h "$DISK" > /dev/null 2>&1 if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then diskutil unmountDIsk `diskutil list "$DISK" | grep ^/dev/` else echo Volume $DISK is not mounted...skipping. fi |
Categories: How-To's, Technology apple, bash, cli, Command, Command line, Disk, diskutil, Drive, eject, Flash, howto, List, Mac, macosx, mount, Terminal, tips, umount, unmount, unmountDisk, USB, volume
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erics, November 10th, 2015 Quit Mail. Look for a file called MessageRules.plist under ~/Library/Mail. Depending on your Mail version it could be under ~/Library/Mail/V2/Maildata as well. Copy that file. It can be edited with vim or the PList editor. I find it much easier to work with as text in vim.
Categories: How-To's, Technology apple, Filter, macosx, mail, plist, Rules
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erics, November 5th, 2015 Every once in a while there is a hiccup in my internet service and every host that Nagios monitors shows DOWN. In those situations, I do not need the hundreds of the emails and text messages generated by Nagios. Here is the procedure for resetting Nagios v3.5.0 running on MacOSX 10.6.8 via a MacPorts install: […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Clear, macosx, nagios, Reset, retention.dat
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erics, July 7th, 2015 The Readline library has a bell-style variable that controls what happens when Readline wants to ring the terminal bell. If set to ‘none’, Readline never rings the bell. If set to ‘visible’, Readline uses a visible bell if one is available. If set to ‘audible’ (the default), Readline attempts to ring the terminal’s bell. Edit […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology apple, bash, Bell, howto, inputrc, macosx, readline, Ring, Terminal Bell, tips
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erics, June 18th, 2015 |
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sudo lsof | awk '{print $3}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r | head -20 |
13137 erics 2421 root 330 _www 139 _mdnsresponder 56 _softwareupdate 34 _coreaudiod 33 _mysql 32 _networkd 23 _assetcache 21 _usbmuxd 21 _locationd 18 _spotlight 13 _nsurlsessiond 13 _netbios 13 _appleevents 10 _windowserver 10 _iconservices 10 _displaypolicyd 8 _nsurlstoraged 8 _distnote
Categories: How-To's, Technology apple, Count, File Handle, Handle, howto, lsof, macosx, open files, tips, ulimit
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erics, June 15th, 2015 |
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defaults write com.apple.Terminal no-bouncing -bool TRUE killall Dock |
Categories: How-To's, Technology apple, Badge, Bell, Bounce, defaults, Disable, Dock, howto, Icon, killall, macosx, Notification, Terminal, tips
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erics, March 30th, 2015 defaults write com.apple.finder InterfaceLevel standard
Categories: How-To's, Technology apple, Finder, howto, macosx, tips, Yosemite
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