21 Aug 2020
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Syslog and ASL in MacOS
macOS Catalina I’m capturing a logs of logs across my Linux systems, they all traditionally used syslog daemon and …
macOS
14 Aug 2020
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How To: Change Crontab Editor in MacOS
my crontab in nano editor on macOS macOS uses nano editor for crontab updates lately, which is not the text editor I …
30 May 2020
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Tmux Mouse Mode in MacOS
Text selection with mouse in tmux Excellent! I’m finally making further improvements to my tmux setup. Namely, …
25 Mar 2020
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Connect to VPN From MacOS Command Line
I knew it’s possible to setup VPN connections using native System Preferences in macOS, but discovered recently …
03 Jan 2020
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Upgrading Tmux in MacOS
Upgrading to tmux 3.0a I have completely missed the tmux 3.0 release, so it’s long overdue that I’m taking …
20 Dec 2019
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Change Mac Hostname With Scutil
Change Mac Hostname with scutil tandard command like hostname will still work in macOS, but perhaps it’s best to …
10 Dec 2019
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Get Last Field With Awk
New Help at Unix Tutorial feature (right bottom of every page) I launched over the weekend is great! Even a few hours …
05 Dec 2019
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Find Kernel Extensions With Kextfind
kextfind in macOS I’m traveling on business today and tomorrow, so will mostly be working and blogging from my …
04 Dec 2019
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How To: List Kernel Extensions With Kextstat
macOS has a very flexible and striving kernel modules ecosystem. There are so many granularities for integrating with OS …
11 Nov 2019
4 minutes read
Brew Cask vs Brew Formula
Homebrew for macOS Since reinstalling certain software packages on my Linux desktop, Linux laptop and Macbook a few …
How to decrypt files with Ansible Vault
ansible-vault decrypt restores an encrypted file …
Just discovered the macOS footprint command
I’ve administered Linux systems for around 25 …
How to Fix Ubuntu Packages Held Back
When trying to run do-release-upgrade on an Ubuntu …
How To Resize Filesystem with resize2fs
Quick note on filesystem resize on a typical …
macOS Tahoe
macOS Tahoe is the upcoming major release of macOS …
Centralized Bash history with timestamps
BASH is my Linux shell of choice (it’s zsh on …
Inspect filesystem operations with fs_usage in macOS
hey Unless you disable SIP, most of DTrace based …