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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/23
I was looking for some PDF files that I knew for sure were on my SSD but Spotlight would not find them. Looking for more obvious files I noticed Spotlight was returning hardly any files at all: somehow the index was messed up.
Years ago I also had Spotlight issues; then it would find nothing (now it did find some files) which was solved by a reboot: Spotlight refuses to be enabled on Lion: reboot helped.
Screenshot 2016-06-29 12.57.34
Now this was right after a reboot, and because Spotlight did find some files I know Spotlight was turned on (no need for mdutil tricks mentioned in After restoring fresh HDD from Time Machine Backup: No results from Spotlight).
So I dug a bit deeper and decided to try [WayBack] Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac – Apple Support with these steps:
- Search for something that returns few results (in my case Xyzzy)
- Click
Spotlight Preferences...
- Go to the
Privacy tab
- From the
Finder, drag your disk(s) to the Prevent Spotlight from searching these locations list.
- Remove your disk(s) from that lists using the minus (-) button.
- Wait for re-indexing to complete
That worked like a charm to refresh the index: it started indexing again which took about one hour.
After a few minutes though, I found back the 32pfl7404h_12_dfu_nld.pdf I was looking for.
A second time, it had lost the index to iTunes, and found it back in about 2 hours (as the SSD was much more full).
A third time, this trick from [WayBack/Archive.is] Re-Index Spotlight from the Terminal, Re-Gain Valuable Time for Life [OS X Tips] | Cult of Mac worked:
sudo mdutil -E /
This basically re-indexes from the root (/) folder.
I find it easier than the above 6 steps (which are also on [WayBack/Archive.is] Make Spotlight Work Again [OS X Tips] | Cult of Mac).
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/17
A while ago, testssl.sh [WayBack] needed Darwin binaries (for OS X): Supply Darwin binaries + install documentation · Issue #127 · drwetter/testssl.sh [WayBack]
So I created the small Bourne shell (sh) script below to deliver them.
It allows me to update these gists:
The build script itself is in a gist as well: https://gist.github.com/f4de3937630b87753133.git [WayBack]
It helped me to contribute to these testssl.sh issues:
Not all of these binaries are in https://github.com/drwetter/testssl.sh/tree/master/bin [WayBack] as it makes the testssl.sh repository too bloated. Some (including non-OSX builds made by others) are here:
Eventually the script might get merged into https://github.com/drwetter/testssl.sh/blob/master/utils/make-openssl.sh [WayBack] as there is a Darwin switch in this commit: https://github.com/drwetter/testssl.sh/commit/6efc3e90f52e5926b0853d3b2fb221b631dcf452 [WayBack]
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/15
The culprit is usually the mds [WayBack] process (metadata server).
Simple command-line solution:
sudo killall mds
A more convoluted way with the Activity Monitor is in the link below.
–jeroen
via: Fix the OS X Finder not displaying the contents of specific folders | MacIssues [WayBack]
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/29
One day I’m going to need this: Make A Bootable Windows 10 USB Install Stick On Linux With WinUSB Fork ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog
So I’m glad WinUSB (which hadn’t been maintained for a long time) got forked on github by slaka.
Since my day-to-day unix-like system is OS X, I’d love a good working solution there too which means I probably need to investigate a bit along these lines:
- Using diskpart in a Windows VM (which is kind of backwards):
- Using Disk Utility and UEFI (only works for Windows 8 and up):
- Using Boot Camp Assistant and a modified Info.plist (which for El Capitan needs some extra work):
–jeroen
via: Make A Bootable Windows 10 USB Install Stick On Linux With WinUSB Fork WebUpd8 – Google+ / DoorToDoorGeek “Stephen McLaughlin” – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/01
DNS and Mac OS X are a bit of a tricky situation as OS X can use more than the default DNS servers: its resolve can do a multi-client DNS search.
The default DNS servers can be listed like this:
scutil --dns | grep 'nameserver\[[0-9]*\]' | sort | uniq
The effective DNS server like this:
dig whoami.akamai.net | grep "^;; SERVER" | cut -c 12-
Sometimes you want to know if you have manually configured DNS servers, or only DHCP assigned ones. This statement shows that for my Wi-Fi network-service:
networksetup -getdnsservers Wi-Fi
Because of the multi-client setup, you need to run this for all network-services configured on your OS X installation. You can get the list like this:
networksetup -listallnetworkservices
I’ve not yet found a way to list only active services, as the networksetup documentation indicates the -listnetworkserviceorder option will mark inactive ones with (*), but it reality does so only for disabled ones. So this does not work:
networksetup -listnetworkserviceorder
I might one day dig into combining the output of ifconfig with networksetup to figure out a shell based solution to this question.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/07
Via the answer below I created the renew alias. I already had the first two aliases.
alias route-and-ipaddresses="netstat -nr | grep 'Internet\|Gateway\|default' && echo && ifconfig | grep '\: flags\|inet\|inet6' && echo more detailed info through ifconfig and netstat -nr"
alias whatismyip="curl http://whatismyip.akamai.com && echo"
alias renew_dhcp="sudo ipconfig set en0 DHCP && echo waiting 10 seconds for DHCP lease to be obtained && sleep 10 && route-and-ipaddresses && whatismyip"
–jeroen
via: network – How can I release and renew my DHCP lease from Terminal? – Ask Different.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/05/26
Thanks Adrian W for providing the below example in your answer about obtaining GLUE record information for a domain.
It is an excellent showcase for the $IFS Internal Field Separator available in any nx shell.
In this case it is used to get the TLD (top-level domain) from the domain name specified at the command-line.
After that, it obtains the name servers for that TLD, and queries the glue records there, both using dig.
Here is a little shell script which implements Alnitak’s answer:
#!/bin/sh
S=${IFS}
IFS=.
for P in $1; do
TLD=${P}
done
IFS=${S}
echo "TLD: ${TLD}"
DNSLIST=$(dig +short ${TLD}. NS)
for DNS in ${DNSLIST}; do
echo "Checking ${DNS}"
dig +norec +nocomments +noquestion +nostats +nocmd @${DNS} $1 NS
done
Pass the name of the domain as parameter:
./checkgluerecords.sh example.org
–jeroen
via domain name system – How to test DNS glue record? – Server Fault.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/01
IRC so: »i> Isotopp: Ich habe jetzt nen Mac als Arbeitsplatzrechner… Was will man als UNIX Hacker zuerst an Tools installieren?«
Source: IRC so: »i> Isotopp: Ich habe jetzt nen Mac als Arbeitsplatzrechner… Was will… by Kristian Köhntopp.
Since G+ is very bad at searching, I created this summary of the tools; read the full G+ post (Google Translate is quite OK), including comments on why.
Edit: 20160402 – I’m posting regular updates based on the comments for that G+ post. I’ve changed or added German iTunes store links to US-English ones.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/07
Last friday I updated the examples at *nix networking – lsof: How to tell what process has a specific port open on Linux (via: Server Fault) as I needed to document some of the machines around here (so it becomes easier replacing them).
I also added some links to background information and (when I get to using it: OS X still goes without) a good iproute2 starter page.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/29
Reloop has posted the below for DJ controlers (like Contour IE, Jockey 3 ME and Digital Jockey 2 ME), but it also applies to their mixers, for instance my Reloop RMX-40 USB – Reloop (but not limited to Reloop audio equipment) in combination with either of my:
- MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2011)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)
All these machines have USB 3.0 ports. But the workarounds below work:
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 