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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: a good sucktion script 770 Views / 8 Replies  
true, true. you're right, i blipped on this one...

by way of penance, i offer:

find ~/Source -name "*.jpg" -exec cp {} ~/Destination \;
Posted by rkt, on Nov 30, 2004 at 11:37 AM, in macOS
Re: Re: Re: Re: a good sucktion script 770 Views / 8 Replies  
yeah... umm... isn't that what he wants to do? to find all .jpg files, and copy them into a single place?
Posted by rkt, on Nov 24, 2004 at 03:16 PM, in macOS
Re: Re: a good sucktion script 770 Views / 8 Replies  
um. perhaps i'm missing the obvious, but what's wrong with using "cp -r *.jpg /destination"?

seems to me pisosse had it right the first time, except for the position of the "-r"...
Posted by rkt, on Nov 23, 2004 at 02:54 PM, in macOS
Re: Any postfix gurus out there? 1,582 Views / 8 Replies  
what does postfix log when you try to connect/send mail?
Posted by rkt, on Oct 19, 2004 at 09:48 AM, in macOS
well yeah, i wasn't suggesting it, just answering... 816 Views / 14 Replies  
well yeah, i wasn't suggesting it, just answering the original question...
Posted by rkt, on Sep 27, 2004 at 08:29 AM, in macOS
sorry, don't understand what you mean...? 816 Views / 14 Replies  
sorry, don't understand what you mean...?
Posted by rkt, on Sep 24, 2004 at 07:02 AM, in macOS
@larkost: indeed, my post had slightly bad... 816 Views / 14 Replies  
@larkost:

indeed, my post had slightly bad wording. it would have been better to say "/requests/ the process to have realtime priority", as it's up to the underlying system whether or not it can...
Posted by rkt, on Sep 24, 2004 at 04:11 AM, in macOS
it's all a bit hazy, but i'm sure i remember... 816 Views / 14 Replies  
it's all a bit hazy, but i'm sure i remember something about this before... iirc it went something like this:

on linux nice'ing something to -20 should tell the system to run the process...
Posted by rkt, on Sep 23, 2004 at 12:59 PM, in macOS
Re: Re: ssh only acct? 829 Views / 8 Replies  
with early versions of macosx server (we could possibly be talking as far back as rhapsody - my memory is a little hazy today) there was a netinfo property that would disable gui login for an...
Posted by rkt, on Jul 12, 2004 at 09:46 AM, in macOS
well, i'm pretty sure i'm not the only person... 817 Views / 9 Replies  
well, i'm pretty sure i'm not the only person works for a multi-national company or, for some other reasons, travels frequently; for me, "travelling to a new office" almost certainly means shifting...
Posted by rkt, on Jun 28, 2004 at 10:49 AM, in macOS
i'm guessing that that he might mean changing the... 817 Views / 9 Replies  
i'm guessing that that he might mean changing the *timezone* rather than the time, per-se.
Posted by rkt, on Jun 28, 2004 at 07:07 AM, in macOS
did you install the gnu fileutils/coreutils? ... 761 Views / 5 Replies  
did you install the gnu fileutils/coreutils?

as mentioned above, what does it say if you type "which ls"? do you still get the same problem if you type "/bin/ls"?
Posted by rkt, on Jun 14, 2004 at 09:12 AM, in macOS
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: PostFix and the SuperUser 2,679 Views / 7 Replies  
that should read:
$mailprog ="/usr/sbin/sendmail";

/usr/sbin/postfix is for controlling postfix, /usr/bin/sendmail (which, with postfix, is a sendmail compatible front-end) is for injecting mail...
Posted by rkt, on Jun 11, 2004 at 07:06 PM, in macOS
Re: Re: Re: reboot VS. shutdown -r now 1,586 Views / 3 Replies  
i'm guessing "shutdown" is more friendly towards other users, which is why you see more messages than just a vanilla reboot. indeed the shutdown man page amusingly comments:

"Shutdown provides an...
Posted by rkt, on Jun 10, 2004 at 12:56 PM, in macOS
Re: reboot VS. shutdown -r now 1,586 Views / 3 Replies  
from shutdown man page:
"-r Shutdown execs reboot(8) at the specified time."

(ie. they are identical)
Posted by rkt, on Jun 8, 2004 at 12:45 PM, in macOS
Re: Can OS X shell be made Case Sensitive? 1,504 Views / 26 Replies  
[wider:~] rkt% cd p<\t>
photos/ python/

[wider:~] rkt% cd P<\t>
Pictures/ Public/

it's sort of half possible... provide you use tab a lot :)
Posted by rkt, on Mar 19, 2004 at 09:05 AM, in macOS
*sigh* yes, i do understand this. however,... 772 Views / 12 Replies  
*sigh* yes, i do understand this.

however, my point is slicing up your /etc/rc* seems "bad"; sitting in a loop testing for the existence of a .Trashes directory on the target volume is a kludge......
Posted by rkt, on Jan 2, 2004 at 11:03 PM, in macOS
i would have thought it was still a good idea to... 772 Views / 12 Replies  
i would have thought it was still a good idea to use fstab to specify the mountpoint, not least as it avoids the swap volume being mounted in the finder...?
Posted by rkt, on Jan 2, 2004 at 11:46 AM, in macOS
actually i got a chance to poke at my mail server... 772 Views / 12 Replies  
actually i got a chance to poke at my mail server (which uses custom mountpoints for logs &c.) and i see that this change happened circa 10.2, not 10.3...
Posted by rkt, on Jan 2, 2004 at 11:40 AM, in macOS
didn't say anything about swap... just... 772 Views / 12 Replies  
didn't say anything about swap... just /Applications & /Users

*shrug*

however, if you're into splicing your startup files you could try this:
...
Posted by rkt, on Jan 1, 2004 at 06:48 PM, in macOS
This has changed with 10.3... fstab now supports... 772 Views / 12 Replies  
This has changed with 10.3... fstab now supports the LABEL or UUID tag for identifying devices for the specification of mount points. see the fstab man page for more info.
Posted by rkt, on Jan 1, 2004 at 06:08 PM, in macOS
no; that's the postfix sendmail-compatibility... 834 Views / 8 Replies  
no; that's the postfix sendmail-compatibility binary...

(fyi, you'll also find "/usr/bin/newaliases" & "/usr/bin/mailq", but they're postfix too)
Posted by rkt, on Nov 10, 2003 at 12:50 PM, in macOS
there's usually a line in the file ~/.screenrc... 774 Views / 11 Replies  
there's usually a line in the file ~/.screenrc that tells screen which shell to use when starting new instances...

mine reads:
shell -$SHELL

(ie. create a new login shell each time)

if it...
Posted by rkt, on Nov 5, 2003 at 09:30 AM, in macOS
better to collaborate. 725 Views / 9 Replies  
better to collaborate.
Posted by rkt, on May 15, 2003 at 10:51 AM, in macOS
or better still, why not just port/submit changes... 725 Views / 9 Replies  
or better still, why not just port/submit changes to lcdproc?

this seems much more sensible given the project is well founded and already has a reasonable plugin-style modules system for output...
Posted by rkt, on May 12, 2003 at 02:18 PM, in macOS
Re: Re: Can anyone get LCDproc to compile? 725 Views / 9 Replies  
looking here...
http://lists.omnipotent.net/pipermail/lcdproc/2002-February/004833.html
...it seems a little more complicated than that.

you can probably build the daemon okay, but most of the...
Posted by rkt, on May 11, 2003 at 10:05 AM, in macOS
okay, i can understand that it's a little... 446 Views / 4 Replies  
okay, i can understand that it's a little complicated at first glance, but it's really not that bad...

have a look here for some practical examples:...
Posted by rkt, on May 9, 2003 at 09:44 PM, in macOS
Re: Apache Config, Blocking Agents? 446 Views / 4 Replies  
mod_rewrite can do what you're looking for. have a look at the section called "Blocking of Robots" on this page:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/rewriteguide.html

(obviously this requires you...
Posted by rkt, on May 9, 2003 at 08:36 PM, in macOS
Re: Re: Re: Apache logs: Am I nuts or is this how it's supposed to be? 639 Views / 9 Replies  
hmm, okay. that begs the question why use a TransferLog directive at all?

ie, just this instead:
CustomLog "| rotatelogs /var/log/httpd/access_log 86400" combined

from apache 1.3 docs:
"This...
Posted by rkt, on May 9, 2003 at 02:29 PM, in macOS
Re: Apache logs: Am I nuts or is this how it's supposed to be? 639 Views / 9 Replies  
you don't need to use both CustomLog *and* TransferLog.

comment out the TransferLog line, and the duplicates should no longer be recorded...

(fyi, you can create as many log files as you want...
Posted by rkt, on May 7, 2003 at 12:58 PM, in macOS
Re: Postfix, mail to big 501 Views / 3 Replies  
add this line to the end of your main.cf file...

message_size_limit = 20480000

(obviously you can change the value to whatever you require; i think without it postfix defaults to around 8MB or...
Posted by rkt, on May 1, 2003 at 08:09 PM, in macOS
Re: Thanks! 670 Views / 8 Replies  
fping works okay for me here... this is what i did:

% cd /tmp
% curl -O http://www.fping.com/download/fping-2.4b2_to.tar.gz
% gnutar -zxf fping-2.4b2_to.tar.gz
% cd fping-2.4b2_to
%...
Posted by rkt, on Apr 24, 2003 at 11:33 AM, in macOS
yes and no... -w is the correct switch, and... 670 Views / 8 Replies  
yes and no...

-w is the correct switch, and is listed in the man page *but* the ping binary that ships with macosx doesn't support it...
Posted by rkt, on Apr 22, 2003 at 10:58 AM, in macOS
and i know exactly why it doesn't work for you.... 868 Views / 11 Replies  
and i know exactly why it doesn't work for you. you typed "lsof -i" and got a list of processes running /as you/. the parent sshd process isn't running as you. it's running as root (it has to be...
Posted by rkt, on Dec 10, 2002 at 09:57 PM, in macOS
you seem very sure of this... perhaps you should... 868 Views / 11 Replies  
you seem very sure of this... perhaps you should try P's suggestion yourself before you continue to contradict.
Posted by rkt, on Dec 7, 2002 at 01:49 PM, in macOS
Re: Re: Re: Re: URGENT Help with UNIX app port 902 Views / 7 Replies  
there have been a few converstations about it on darwin-dev. in my hazy recollection malloc.h is only used by the kernel and should never be touched userland side.
Posted by rkt, on Oct 15, 2002 at 07:26 AM, in macOS
Re: URGENT Help with UNIX app port 902 Views / 7 Replies  
i hacked together a version of the libgnugetopt library. if you're not into fink i can give you a copy if you want...
Posted by rkt, on Oct 12, 2002 at 02:45 PM, in macOS
Re: History of processes? 1,045 Views / 13 Replies  
system accounting does what you want. it's started automatically by the /System/Library/StartupItems/Accounting startup item if the file /var/account/acct exists.

so just do:

% sudo mkdir...
Posted by rkt, on Sep 29, 2002 at 07:17 AM, in macOS
almost, except that you can't seem to use... 2,693 Views / 45 Replies  
almost, except that you can't seem to use "command + tab" as the activation hot key anymore...
Posted by rkt, on Aug 4, 2002 at 04:29 PM, in macOS
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva,... 558 Views / 10 Replies  
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by MacGorilla:
<strong>There...
Posted by rkt, on Jul 14, 2002 at 11:05 AM, in macOS
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva,... 611 Views / 4 Replies  
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by Rampico:...
Posted by rkt, on Jul 12, 2002 at 05:56 AM, in macOS
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by Jerry Brown:
<strong>All...
Posted by rkt, on Jul 4, 2002 at 08:23 AM, in macOS
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva,... 533 Views / 10 Replies  
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by BostonMACOSX:...
Posted by rkt, on Jul 2, 2002 at 01:03 PM, in macOS
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by kevyang:
<strong>I needed...
Posted by rkt, on Jul 2, 2002 at 11:05 AM, in macOS
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva,... 533 Views / 10 Replies  
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by schwa:
<strong>Well, I...
Posted by rkt, on Jul 2, 2002 at 11:03 AM, in macOS
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva,... 551 Views / 4 Replies  
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by kevyang:
<strong>Anyone...
Posted by rkt, on Jul 1, 2002 at 08:05 AM, in macOS
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva,... 557 Views / 10 Replies  
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by Harbinger:...
Posted by rkt, on Jun 13, 2002 at 01:53 PM, in macOS
/etc/services isn't really used; you need to add... 920 Views / 5 Replies  
/etc/services isn't really used; you need to add it to the netinfo db if you want it to be registered.

[ 05-17-2002: Message edited by: rkt ]
Posted by rkt, on May 17, 2002 at 08:57 PM, in macOS
ah. yeah, i can understand that the netinfo... 708 Views / 10 Replies  
ah. yeah, i can understand that the netinfo manager app might be slow, but i was refering to the "nicl" command which is pretty fast...
Posted by rkt, on May 17, 2002 at 08:43 PM, in macOS
sudo niload -d hosts . &lt; /etc/hosts (off... 708 Views / 10 Replies  
sudo niload -d hosts . &lt; /etc/hosts

(off the top of my head, but should be about right...)
Posted by rkt, on May 16, 2002 at 08:51 PM, in macOS
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