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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/03
Based on [WayBack]ย macOS – Wikipediaย and follow-up ofย OS X โ the versions and their names โ as I always forget themย andย osx โ How to find out Mac OS X version from Terminal? (via: Super User)
Release historyย (with release dates):
The graph with Apple Mac OS X / OS X / Mac OS versions cannot do without a graph showing the BSD and Unix inheritance.
Graph origins:
More complete Mac OS X / OS X / Mac OS and Unix timelinesย are below fromย macOS version history – Wikipedia.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/10/07
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/07/29
logging – Where is “/var/log/messages” on mac-osx? – Server Fault
TL;DR: because most of it is in /var/log/system.logย which is configured in /etc/asl.conf, but the documentation example aboutย syslog.confย never got updated.
Long read
The example in syslog.conf is wrong atย WayBack: Mac OS X Manual Page For syslog.conf(5)ย and man syslog.conf:
EXAMPLES
A configuration file might appear as follows:
...
# Log anything (except mail) of level info or higher.
# Don't log private authentication messages!
*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none /var/log/messages
...
FILES
/etc/syslog.conf The syslogd(8) configuration file.
It still is when writing thisย [WayBack]syslog.conf(5) Mac OS X Manual Page, so you have to look at /etc/syslog.confย on a live system:
# Note that flat file logs are now configured in /etc/asl.conf
install.* @127.0.0.1:32376
which means the actual configuration is in /etc/asl.conf:
# Rules for /var/log/system.log
> system.log mode=0640 format=bsd rotate=seq compress file_max=5M all_max=50M
? [= Sender kernel] file system.log
? [<= Level notice] file system.log
? [= Facility auth] [<= Level info] file system.log
? [= Facility authpriv] [<= Level info] file system.log
Documentation atย [WayBack] asl.conf(5) Mac OS X Manual Pageย indicates this:
NAME
asl.conf -- configuration file for syslogd(8) and aslmanager(8)
DESCRIPTION
The syslogd(8) server reads the /etc/asl.conf file at startup, and re-reads the file when it receives a HUP signal. The aslmanager(8) daemon reads the file when it starts. See the
ASLMANAGER PARAMETER SETTINGS section for details on aslmanager-specific parameters.
Source
Based on [WayBack]ย logging – Where is “/var/log/messages” on mac-osx? – Server Fault:
Q:
When you read the man pages on Mac OS X, there are references to /var/log/messages, but if you look for the file, it doesn’t exist:
$ ls -l /var/log/messages
ls: /var/log/messages: No such file or directory
A:
2009 era:ย If you look at the actual /etc/syslog.conf instead of the man page, you see *.notice;authpriv,remoteauth,ftp,install.none;kern.debug;maiโโl.crit /var/log/system.log
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/29
When connecting from my Mac to my ESXi rig, some commands (especially less) show this output:
WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
So I created this alias to connect from my Mac to the internal address of my ESXi rig:
alias ssh-esxi-X10SRH-CF-internal='TERM=xtermย ssh -p 22 root@192.168.71.91'
The trick is the bold part:ย TERM=xtermย (which you can also replace byย export TERM=xterm;ย if you want future ssh sessions to use the same [wayback] TERM setting).
The reason is that the Mac defines the TERM variable as containing xterm-256ย which is defined on the Mac itself, but ESXi has a hard time coping with it.
Some Mac OS and Xcode combinations had a problem with xterm-256ย not being present ([WayBack]ย macos – Terminal strangeness after installing Xcode on Lion – Super User), but this isn’t the case on my system:
$ ls -alh `find /usr/share/terminfo | grep 'xterm-256color'`
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3.2K Jul 30 2016 /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm-256color
On the Mac you really want to use xterm-256colorย as it looks way better than xterm-colorย or xterm:ย [WayBack]ย linux – What is the difference between xterm-color & xterm-256color? – Stack Overflowย (thanks [WayBack] Chris Page!)
It seems I already did something similar on ESXi itself to get esxtopย working:ย ESXi: when esxtop shows garbage.ย That was on the ESXi side and works as well for this problem too.
However, it is a bit harder to have a script run during ESXi boot time that sets this, so it is easier to fix this on the Mac side.
It works for all OS X and ESXi versions I’ve tested so far.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/18
Two installation options for TigerVNC:
The [WayBack]ย TigerVNCย viewer gives a bit more details on failing VNC connections than the stock OSX Screen Sharing.appย does: after performing the logon, the connection would just stall, butย TigerVNC would should ย “write broken pipe (32)”ย after the logon. Most of the linked search results indicated the VNC server was having a state problem.
So I restarted the VNC server, after which connections could be made again in both tools.
I actually prefer the stock Screen Sharing.appย as:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/01
cd /Volumes/Backup/Backups.backupdb/Joshua\ Priddleโs\ MacBook\ Pro/Latest/Macintosh\ HD/Users/priddle
tmutil restore -v secret_docs.txt ~/
Learned from [WayBack]ย Restoring files from OS X Time Machine with Terminal.app:
- do not use
cpย as it will give you wrong permissions
- do use
tmutil
More elaborate steps (including finding the backup in the first place) is atย [WayBack]ย Commandline restoration of a file in Time Machine on OS X | Hacks for Macs
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/11
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/04/03
I always forget which OS X versions there are and which names they use.
So via: OS X – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, I made this list where the first item points to the table in the above article and each subsequent item to the individual article on the version. I tried to find EOL dates, but that’s hard despite the overview atย Apple security updates – Apple Support:
None of this would be noteworthy if Apple, like Microsoft and a host of other major software vendors, clearly spelled out its support policies. But Apple doesn’t, leaving users to guess about when their operating systems will fall off support. | Computerworld
- Versionsย (the table with Version/Codename/Processor support/Application support/Kernel/Date announced/Release date/Most recent version)
–jeroen
PS: EOL dates are as of 20160403.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/27
iMovie on a 2010 iMac was starting and running slow. During startup, it wasn’t using much memory, but during editing it did: less than 2 gigabyte out of 8 gigabyte free memory left.
The hard-disk was like 30% full, there wasn’t much in the cache, few processes were auto-starting and the recycle bin was almost empty.
So my first thought was adding more RAM (which is easy): duplicating it to 16 megabyte was easy and not expensive when you look at the Amazon prices for it.
After that it was faster, but not really fast: especially the loading was still slow (less slow than before, but still taking minutes).
Then I scanned for permission issues and there were quite a few as the machine had been getting updates since 2010. So I repaired the permissions using disk utility.
Now iMovie loaded much faster as well: in under a minute.
So out ofย 17 Ways to Speed Up Mac OS X Lion – ChrisWrites.com, only 2 steps were really needed so far.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/10
These links:
Made me add this to my ~/.bash_profile:
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2014-10-16 –ย OS X 10.10 Yosemite
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 
