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1 May 2008By default the MacOS X Open Directory debugging log file is disabled. You can temporarily reenable it by running the following command in the Terminal app: sudo killall -USR1 DirectoryService After you reboot, debugging will be disabled again. If you want to enable Open Directory debugging so that it stays enabled across reboots, run the [...]
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18 Mar 2008In Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger some system preferences were unique to a particular computer and so were named using a naming convention that included the MAC address of the first network device in the computer (en0). In Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard this naming convention was changed to use a different unique identifier other [...]
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15 Mar 2008This script uses otool -L to determine and print all dynamic library dependencies of a given executable or library file recursively and you use it like this: $ checklibs.pl /bin/ls /bin/ls: /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib /usr/lib/libncurses.5.4.dylib /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib /usr/lib/libncurses.5.4.dylib: /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib: /usr/lib/system/libmathCommon.A.dylib Here’s the script which was written by Marc Liyanage: #!/usr/bin/perl # # Written by [...]
This blog is about technology related topics. It will primarily contain problems and solutions to IT problems that I encounter on a day-to-day basis. In addition interesting things I come across either on or off the internet will be posted here as well. I will also include step-by-step tutorials to common tasks people may need to do with their computers.