Re: location of 'com.apple.versioner.perl'
On 9 Jul 2010, at 18:27, Chris Devers wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Packy Anderson packyander...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Alan Fry a...@afco.demon.co.uk wrote: However for the life of me I cannot find the file 'com.apple.versioner.perl.plist' on that machine. It is not in /Library/Preferences. What am I missing? Did you also look under ~/Library/Preferences? It's ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.versioner.perl.plist Here's how you prove it, and any other questions like this: 1/ In one Terminal window, run `sudo filebyproc.d | grep -i plist` 2/ In another Terminal window, run the defaults command in question 3/ In the original window, hit ctrl-C to cancel, then examine the results. Tweak the grep filter as needed and you can use this trick to isolate all kinds of weird what file is that damned thing looking at type questions. Thank you for this tip -- 'filebyproc.d' is a new one to me. One learns something everyday. Could be really useful, as you say, to find out who's doing what to whom. I am still bothered about putting a 'Prefer-32-bit plist' on someone else's computer (via the installer) just for the sake of Mac::Processes. What if the owner prefers 64 bit...? Alan
Re: location of 'com.apple.versioner.perl'
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Packy Anderson packyander...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Alan Fry a...@afco.demon.co.uk wrote: However for the life of me I cannot find the file 'com.apple.versioner.perl.plist' on that machine. It is not in /Library/Preferences. What am I missing? Did you also look under ~/Library/Preferences? It's ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.versioner.perl.plist Here's how you prove it, and any other questions like this: 1/ In one Terminal window, run `sudo filebyproc.d | grep -i plist` 2/ In another Terminal window, run the defaults command in question 3/ In the original window, hit ctrl-C to cancel, then examine the results. Here's what filebyproc.d reported for me: $ sudo filebyproc.d | grep -i plist dtrace: script '/usr/bin/filebyproc.d' matched 3 probes 1 18510 open:entry backupd-helper /private/var/db/.TimeMachine.Results.plist dtrace: error on enabled probe ID 1 (ID 19296: syscall::open_nocancel:entry): invalid address (0x7fff5fc2dc7f) in action #2 at DIF offset 24 1 19296 open_nocancel:entry defaults /Users/cdevers/Library/Preferences/com.apple.versioner.perl.plist.GWghJmY 1 18510 open:entry mdworker /Users/cdevers/Library/Preferences/com.apple.versioner.perl.plist $ Tweak the grep filter as needed and you can use this trick to isolate all kinds of weird what file is that damned thing looking at type questions. -- Chris Devers
