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| I have been authenticating from Mac OS X clients...
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I have been authenticating from Mac OS X clients to Linux NIS servers for 5 years now... with nary a hitch. I also export users $HOME folders from a Linux NFS server. I did it this way because that...
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| Posted by utidjian, on Jun 18, 2005 at 11:40 PM, in macOS |
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| GNU ls has supported POSIX style ACLs for several...
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GNU ls has supported POSIX style ACLs for several years now (possibly 6). It may be that your version of GNU ls does not have the ACL capability compiled in. I don't have Tiger yet (supposed to ship...
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| Posted by utidjian, on Apr 29, 2005 at 11:42 AM, in macOS |
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| You could try connecting it to a Windows or Linux...
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You could try connecting it to a Windows or Linux PC, format it there, then perhaps the Mac will "see" the drive. Format it as FAT32.
Can you see the drive in Apple System Profiler or in Disk...
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| Posted by utidjian, on Apr 3, 2005 at 12:00 PM, in macOS |
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| Re: Installing software on OSX vs Linux
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That Quicksilver app looks pretty sweet. If you are looking for something exactly like that in Linux it doesn't exist yet. Hmmm actually it used to exist... it was called TkDesk. TkDesk did not look...
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| Posted by utidjian, on Mar 14, 2005 at 05:45 PM, in macOS |
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| Yeah sorry... you are quite correct. On a...
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Yeah sorry... you are quite correct. On a Cyrus-IMAP server you can not simply cat the two files together. I did a LOT of reading up on the problem of backups and restores of Cyrus-IMAP servers. I...
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| Posted by utidjian, on Mar 12, 2005 at 03:10 AM, in macOS |
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| Re: Problem solved
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Shame you deleted it... would have been interesting to look it over. Did you ever install a database like PostgreSQL or an email MTA like postfix? Google hits on "postgrep" seem to mainly come up as...
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| Posted by utidjian, on Mar 5, 2005 at 11:42 PM, in macOS |
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| Re: strange hack....?
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I have read your other thread... that is, IMO, some seriously screwed up system.
To bad Apple doesn't have a util (yet) like RPM where one can scan through ALL system packages and verify their...
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| Posted by utidjian, on Mar 5, 2005 at 08:55 AM, in macOS |
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| Try 'man -k somestring' where somestring is a...
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Try 'man -k somestring' where somestring is a string that is likely to appear in the description of the command. You will then get a list of commands and their manpage descriptions that contain...
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| Posted by utidjian, on Feb 26, 2005 at 02:16 PM, in macOS |
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| Are you sure about Gnome? I have all that you...
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Are you sure about Gnome? I have all that you describe above in the Gnome file browser called Nautilus. Spatial is the default mode of the file manager in fact. Some people like it and some don't....
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| Posted by utidjian, on Feb 15, 2005 at 12:21 AM, in macOS |
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| Click on Macintosh HD (or whatever you are...
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Click on Macintosh HD (or whatever you are calling it) then,
File --> Get info --> Content index
If there is an existing index file of the drive the 'Delete Index' button will not be greyed out....
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| Posted by utidjian, on Feb 7, 2005 at 08:26 PM, in macOS |
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| Using FTP as a remote or network type file system...
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Using FTP as a remote or network type file system is, as larkost has pointed out, a bad idea for more reasons than there are reasons to use it. Just because Microsoft supports easy read/write access...
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| Posted by utidjian, on Feb 7, 2005 at 01:37 PM, in macOS |
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| Well I just started mine a few minutes ago on a...
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Well I just started mine a few minutes ago on a iMac 17" FP G4 with 1G RAM and 80G disk. Only using 14.5G of it so far... it lists 442,601 files to be indexed... hasn't done 1% of them yet.
Quite...
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| Posted by utidjian, on Feb 5, 2005 at 11:21 PM, in macOS |
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| That was early 2002 IIRC.... ...
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That was early 2002 IIRC....
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/29/windows_on_a_database_sliced/
is an interesting read. Makes the origins of the ideas that Spotlight and WinFS may use even more...
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| Posted by utidjian, on Jan 31, 2005 at 02:56 AM, in macOS |
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| It proves no such thing.
It proves Apple...
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It proves no such thing.
It proves Apple applied for the patent in 2000. It does NOT prove that Apple was even working on it for any length of time previous to that. They could have bought the...
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| Posted by utidjian, on Jan 30, 2005 at 01:23 PM, in macOS |
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| There basically isn't any learning curve... not...
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There basically isn't any learning curve... not if you already have MySQL installed (easy), MyODBC installed (also easy), Office v. X installed (easy) and a couple of other things I will get to...
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| Posted by utidjian, on Jan 29, 2005 at 07:51 PM, in macOS |
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| Hmmm... I was thinking of the same thing. Correct...
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Hmmm... I was thinking of the same thing. Correct me if I am wrong but even Filemaker requires that MS-Office be installed before it "creates" MS-Word files, no? If yes, then presumably it does this...
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| Posted by utidjian, on Jan 28, 2005 at 11:11 AM, in macOS |
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| I had/have no intention of misleading anyone. But...
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I had/have no intention of misleading anyone. But thanks for bringing up the point.
I do not know why the PoC code only seems to be effective if run by a user with uid=501... those were just my...
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| Posted by utidjian, on Jan 27, 2005 at 01:52 PM, in macOS |
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| Re: Local root vuln in OS X
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Interesting.
I tried it here both before and after the most recent security update (Security Update 2005-001) and it only seems to work for a user with uid=501. I usually login as myself...
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| Posted by utidjian, on Jan 26, 2005 at 11:17 PM, in macOS |
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| One of the coolest non-Apple made ads I remember...
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One of the coolest non-Apple made ads I remember was the one where a teenaged girl is in her room and she is fiddling with her iBook. Her mom yells to ask if she is finished cleaning up her room...
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| Posted by utidjian, on Jan 24, 2005 at 08:41 AM, in macOS |
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| Re: Ping from the command line
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Just type Ctrl-C. That is... press the key marked CONTROL (lower left of Mac keyboard) and while holding the CONTROL key down press the C key. Ctrl-C (or Ctrl+C) is shorthand for the above. Another...
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| Posted by utidjian, on Jan 23, 2005 at 04:57 PM, in macOS |
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| RPC = Remote Procedure Call
You can use the...
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RPC = Remote Procedure Call
You can use the command 'rpcinfo -p' to find out the status of all your RPC dependent programs and services that are running on your local machine. If you want to find...
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| Posted by utidjian, on Jan 19, 2005 at 08:02 AM, in macOS |
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| I do a similar thing via an automount map from...
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I do a similar thing via an automount map from NIS. It was a real PITA to set it up the first time though because the information on exactly what to do was not in one place.
I have two servers...
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| Posted by utidjian, on Jan 18, 2005 at 11:58 AM, in macOS |
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| Re: ping inside of crontab fails to produce output
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crontab needs the full pathname to a command in order for it to work. It may be that crontab has /bin/ set somewhere as in its path but not /sbin/ so that is why echo and date work. Try this:
* ...
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| Posted by utidjian, on Jan 18, 2005 at 04:55 AM, in macOS |
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| Re: Correct owner/group of /applications folder?
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The correct owner group for /Applications is root admin, respectively. The perms on /Applications should be 0775 (this is right after a repair permissions run). 0775 translates to rwxrwxr-x.
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| Posted by utidjian, on Jan 18, 2005 at 04:25 AM, in macOS |
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| Re: general question
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Even easier is to use the tabbed browsing feature.
Safari --> Preferences --> Tabs
then check the box for 'Enable Tabbed Browsing'
Apple-Shift-Tab to cycle between tabs.
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| Posted by utidjian, on Jan 16, 2005 at 12:51 AM, in macOS |
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| Re: Re: Re: Re: Maintenance without root password
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What I said is true as I said it... In the part of the your post I was responding to you specifically said "the Terminal". You did not say "single user mode". They are both very different things used...
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| Posted by utidjian, on Jan 15, 2005 at 05:39 PM, in macOS |
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| An embedded device is a limited purpose device....
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An embedded device is a limited purpose device. Embedded devices run a dedicated OS. They are not designed so the user can load in whatever programs even if the system is capable... but that is not...
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| Posted by utidjian, on Jan 14, 2005 at 08:25 PM, in macOS |
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| Re: Re: Re: Maintenance without root password
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Duh... sorry, dunno why I got the idea it was a laptop. If, as you say, this is an "old iMac" then presumably they have been supporting it all along and should know something about Macs. Is she the...
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| Posted by utidjian, on Jan 14, 2005 at 02:27 PM, in macOS |
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| Re: Re: Maintenance without root password
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If she is a "regular user" (not an admin) then, theoretically, there is nothing she can do that will alter permissions in the first place outside of her home folder. Repair permissions will not touch...
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| Posted by utidjian, on Jan 14, 2005 at 12:20 PM, in macOS |
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| Sometimes you can use the upgrade coupons that...
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Sometimes you can use the upgrade coupons that are included with a new Mac... sometimes not. Using the coupons can reduce the price.
When you consider the features and integration of iLife and...
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| Posted by utidjian, on Jan 14, 2005 at 10:23 AM, in macOS |
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| Supposedly the work on a *BSD driver for NTFS...
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Supposedly the work on a *BSD driver for NTFS began in 1994. For Linux it was in 1995. It appears that both platforms developed their own NTFS drivers independently. When exactly NTFS support...
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| Posted by utidjian, on Jan 14, 2005 at 12:52 AM, in macOS |
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| I agree with just about everything you said but...
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I agree with just about everything you said but this last bit. If the company she works for owns the laptop or leases it or whatever, neither she nor anyone else that isn't authorized by the company...
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| Posted by utidjian, on Jan 13, 2005 at 08:59 PM, in macOS |
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| Re: New to the command line
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If you do decide to use bash you may find these links useful:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/index.html...
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| Posted by utidjian, on Jan 12, 2005 at 01:17 PM, in macOS |
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| Re: New to the command line
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Most people prefer, as with so many things, the shell they are most familiar with.
I prefer bash.
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| Posted by utidjian, on Jan 11, 2005 at 12:14 PM, in macOS |
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| Re: Re: Re: Authenticate with GUI from Terminal?
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Yeah... I am kinda interested. Looks like vsdbutil is sort of problematic in itself. Essentially if you turn off privs on the disk it becomes somewhat meaningless who or what root is... it makes...
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| Posted by utidjian, on Dec 27, 2004 at 11:47 PM, in macOS |
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| Re: Handling multiple Macs and file changes
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In Linux I use rsync. When I leave home for work I run a little script that syncs up a subset of folders (Work, Projects, whatever) from my home folder at home to my home folder at work. When I leave...
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| Posted by utidjian, on Dec 26, 2004 at 01:17 PM, in macOS |
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| You might want to read this: ...
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You might want to read this:
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/11/21/maintenance.html
do a search for 'bus error'.
Again that "820/1556" is completely useless information without the...
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| Posted by utidjian, on Dec 24, 2004 at 02:01 AM, in macOS |
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| Re: Reading EFS on Mac OS X/Darwin
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I know Linux can (there is an efs.ko kernel module) and I can mount and read Irix CDs on my Linux box. I have not heard of nor can I find a Mac OS X specific module or plugin... I couldn't even find...
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| Posted by utidjian, on Dec 24, 2004 at 01:30 AM, in macOS |
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| Re: piping into lanosd
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Ermm... pardon me for asking the obvious but why not just simply run:
tail -f /var/www/logs/httpd/access_log
in a plain old terminal and be done with it?
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| Posted by utidjian, on Dec 23, 2004 at 09:17 PM, in macOS |
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| Re: updated prebinding and.......
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Well "line(number820/1500)" is completely meaningless. If it fails right there then copy-n-paste the ten or twenty lines leading up to the "bus error".
When I run that command I almost always get...
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| Posted by utidjian, on Dec 22, 2004 at 09:13 PM, in macOS |
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| Well NetOctopus is out, it would cost $5,800+ for...
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Well NetOctopus is out, it would cost $5,800+ for us.
I had no idea that ARD 2 had the new capabilities since August!! Thanks for that link. We have ARD 1.2 already and frankly it kinda sucked.
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| Posted by utidjian, on Dec 18, 2004 at 03:37 PM, in macOS |
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| And nor should it! The "prefered" way of using...
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And nor should it! The "prefered" way of using fink is to NOT have it touch ANY of the main Apple installed side of the system but for each user that wants to use fink to be able to add the '....
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| Posted by utidjian, on Dec 17, 2004 at 08:48 PM, in macOS |
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