On Jun 24, 2005, at 1:10 PM, Ted Zeng wrote:
SSH has been a big headache to me. I wish OS X
just has telnet. It is good enough for my purpose.
I wish SSH has an option that says turn it into rlogin or
telnet.
Mac OS X does have a telnet daemon -- but it's disabled by default.
On Tiger, you c
At 8:39 AM +1000 6/10/04, John Horner wrote:
A guy in my office just got a new G5 delivered. I asked to borrow
his Developer Tools CD because I've mislaid mine.
Surprisingly, there's no such thing. New G5s come with two DVDs and
I couldn't find the Dev Tools anywhere in them. The Help, when I
s
At 14:33 -0800 2/26/03, Daniel Stillwaggon wrote:
On Wednesday, Feb 26, 2003, at 12:44 US/Pacific, Jonathan King wrote:
But my "favorite" undocumented program in the system is
/usr/sbin/softwareupdate. Uniquely powerful, no man page, no source
I can find, and a couple of things that look a bit wei
At 10:12 AM +1100 2/26/03, John Horner wrote:
I have an OSX machine used as a server in another room.
I nearly always get to it via a shell app.
I can't remember the exact version of X that's on it.
How do I find out if it's 10.1.3 or 10.1.5 from the command-line?
Use the command "sw_vers". On
At 12:01 -0500 2/14/03, Gary Blackburn wrote:
I'm not an Apache expert by any means, but one of the changes in the
new httpd.conf is this:
RegisterUserSite all-users
RegisterDefaultSite
Which sounds kinda cool, even if I don't know what it does. :-)
mod_rendezvous?
Mod_rendezvous allows you
At 12:57 -0800 2/5/03, John Gilmore-Baldwin wrote:
Well, I can be of a little help, I think:
On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 12:23 AM, Rich Morin wrote:
I've come up with some peculiar questions about OSX file systems:
* How can I get the file length and size on disk for a file's Data
At 14:02 -0800 12/13/02, David Wheeler wrote:
On Friday, December 13, 2002, at 01:54 PM, Riccardo Perotti wrote:
Can somebody please supply with the actual commands involved in "The usual
make, test, install routine", starting from the folder where my downloaded
software would be?
If you're w
At 16:08 -0800 12/10/02, bob ackerman wrote:
On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 02:08 PM, Adam Wells wrote:
At 14:02 -0800 12/10/02, bob ackerman wrote:
On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 01:31 PM, Matt Morse wrote:
also i'm interesed in opening a browser with a valid internet addre
At 14:02 -0800 12/10/02, bob ackerman wrote:
On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 01:31 PM, Matt Morse wrote:
also i'm interesed in opening a browser with a valid internet address
as argument but i can't find out the syntax for mac os x - can anyone
give a hand with that?
You can use the open co
At 13:31 -0800 12/10/02, Matt Morse wrote:
also i'm interesed in opening a browser with a valid internet address
as argument but i can't find out the syntax for mac os x - can anyone
give a hand with that?
You can use the open command (see the man page for details):
open -a Internet\ Explor
At 21:44 +0100 12/10/02, allan wrote:
hi
2 small problems.
i like to know how to close a program like Internet Explorer from perl.
the little script below seem to work for me, but i guess there must be
a cleaner and more correct way.
also i'm interesed in opening a browser with a valid internet
At 12:38 -0500 12/5/02, Chris Nandor wrote:
Does anyone know how to open a resource fork, with open(), sysopen(),
POSIX::open(), etc.? On Mac OS, I would use O_RSRC, but that is apparently
not available in Mac OS X's fcntl.h.
You can access the resource fork of any file by appending
"/..namedf
At 14:58 -0500 12/3/02, Jerry LeVan wrote:
This morning when I tried to send some mail I was kept getting failure
messages.
Reading mail was OK.
Mail log asserted localhost had refused connection. After some putzing
around I noticed that "/" was owned by me and had all permissions turned on!
Sy
At 20:12 -0500 11/21/02, Gary Blackburn wrote:
"In Mac OS X 10.1.x and earlier, the system was configure to consult
the Netinfo database for all directory information...However, in Mac
OS X 10.2 (Jaguar), NetInfo functions more as a legacy protocol.
Instead of being a major player in the direct
At 18:34 -0600 11/13/02, Puneet Kishor wrote:
Thanks Adam, for a good description of NetPBM. I understand that
better now. Seems very similar to ImageMagick (which is also a suite
of tools).
I have spent some time looking at PBMPlus at acme.com, and reading
the NetPBM docs, but I don't see muc
At 10:46 -0600 11/13/02, Puneet Kishor wrote:
There has been a lot of discussion here re (Image|Perl)Magick. I
have not installed it on my iBook but have installed and used it on
my Windoze box and found it to be very fun. However, I recently came
across NetPBM. While it might be old news for s
At 22:30 -0500 8/29/02, Puneet Kishor wrote:
>If you have Apache 2 that means you (or someone else on that
>machine) installed it. Apache 2 does not come with OS X. If you
>installed it you probably know where you installed it.
Actually, Apache 2 does come with Jaguar Server 10.2. However, it'
At 11:38 -0700 7/12/02, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> find2perl /Dir -eval '-f and -s "$_/..namedfork/rsrc"' -print | perl
Wow, that's cool. I had never heard of find2perl. I learn something
new every day on this list.
I ran both the find command and the find2perl command against
/Applicatio
At 7:44 -0400 7/12/02, Erik Price wrote:
>BUT -- this is a little off topic, but could someone point me to a
>resource describing which kinds of files need the special treatment?
>I run OS X only but I have heard that there are still some apps that
>use the dichotomous file structure. This way
instead of directly calling
"mount_afp" if you can. Someday, the functionality of mount_afp may
be folded into mount, and mount_afp may go away. If you're using
"mount -t afp", you won't have to change all your scripts when that
happens.
adam
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Mac OS X Server QA
Apple Computer
At 21:12 -0600 4/1/02, Chris Devers wrote:
>Thanks, but I read it twice & now three times, and I still don't get it.
>Why does setting up SSL mode boots of Apache get easier when you boot into
>single user mode, as opposed to just doing "sudo pico /etc/hostconfig" and
>then rebooting without the e
At 3:59 +0900 1/14/02, Dan Kogai wrote:
> Then I switched startup volume to backup disk. MacOSX boots
>smoothly and... Startup Assistant appears. You can ssh to the
>machine with the same account and same key, every file is there.
>It's just Startup Assistant; Until you create a new accoun
At 17:44 -0600 1/4/02, Bill Stephenson wrote:
>I did get as far as a print error when I tried to run something like this
>from the terminal:
>
>Print -Mtxt /test.txt
I got an error too when I tried this:
[bh2065:~] adam% Print test.txt
Converting TEXT file to postscript...
[ 1 pages * 1 copy ] l
At 16:08 -0600 12/19/01, Chris Devers wrote:
>Good observation. I have one naked .bom file in there and 36 .pkg folders,
>all of which contain a .bom file. Can't tell what any of them are though,
>since /usr/bin/strings insists they aren't object files & thus won't read
>them. They're clearly not
At 10:41 -0600 12/6/01, Chris Devers wrote:
>After that you start going into niches ("Perl for System Administration",
>"Perl for Bioinformatics") or esoterica ("Mastering Regular Expressions",
>"Object Oriented Perl") and it's all good to know if you want to go that
>far with it, but I'd start wi
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