In addition to my post about Mac OS X: restarting Google Drive when it shows a spinning wheel, restarting a hanging Tunnelblick is even easier:
killall Tunnelblick
open -a Tunnelblick
–jeroen
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Mac OS X: restarting Tunnelblick when it isn’t responding any more
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/31
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Mac OS X – serial communication programs
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/30
Some links that helped me getting FTDI USB serial communication to Raspberry Pi systems going:
- Serial adapter drivers, programs, pinout, and tips for console TTY’s on a Mac.Source: Mac’s and serial TTY’s
- List of GUI terminal emulation software for console TTY’s on a Mac with OS X.Source: Mac OS X Serial Applications
- Source: Is there an OS X terminal program that can access serial ports? – Ask Different
- Source: SHA – – – Raspberry Pi – RS232 Serial Interface Options (Revisit)
–jeroen
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Mac OS X: restarting Google Drive when it shows a spinning wheel
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/29
Every now and then, Google Drive on Mac OS X gets confused and starts showing the spinning wheel when hovering over the menu bar icon similar to for instance DropBox does every once in a while.
This is how to terminate and restart Google Drive from the terminal (no need for su):
killall -v -SIGKILL Google\ Drive
open -a Google\ Drive
Alternatively you can start Google Drive using this:
/Applications/Google\ Drive.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Drive &
I found this executable through osx – Find all executable files within a folder in terminal – Ask Different
Note that this won’t kill Google Drive as it sends the TERM signal (SIGTERM):
killall -v Google\ Drive
–jeroen
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Finder doesn’t work since Yosemite – Ask Different
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/20
Source: Finder doesn’t work since Yosemite – Ask Different [WayBack]:
This fix from Reddit worked perfectly for me!!
http://www.reddit.com/r/osx/comments/2jtikj/finder_not_responding_new_yosemite_install/ [WayBack]
You can most likely fix the issue by clearing out Finder’s saved state, caches, and/or settings.
Use Spotlight (the search icon in the far right of the menu bar) to find and open the “Terminal” application. Triple-click the following line in order to copy and paste it into Terminal’s window:
rm -fR ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/com.apple.finder.savedState ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.finder; killall FinderIf it still doesn’t work, try this one:
mv ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder{,.backup}.plist; killall Finder
–jeroen
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Managing WIFI connections using the Mac OSX…
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/10
These links:
- [Wayback/Archive] Managing WIFI connections using the Mac OSX…
- [Wayback/Archive] Find & Scan Wireless Networks from the Command Line in Mac OS X
- [Wayback/Archive] airport – the Little Known Command Line Wireless Utility
Made me add this to my ~/.bash_profile:
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Determining the current shell in *n*x variants including ESXi
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/08
On most systems, I use bash as shell, but not all systems have it, for instance the shell.xs4all.nl server uses tcsh and ESXi 4+ uses a very limited ash shell from busybox (ESX 4 had bash though).
There is this huge script that covers many shell and operating system versions (even DOS, Windows) and interpreters (python, ruby, php, etc) what shell is this which I got through Stéphane Chazelas‘s answer in linux – determine shell in script during runtime – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
I wanted a shorter thing that works in current Linux, BSD, OS X and ESXi versions.
Some very short scripts are less reliable, for instance echo $SHELL looks nice, but isn’t always set.
Similar for echo $0 which will fail for instance if it shows as sh but in fact is a different shell in disguise.
This works for bash, tcsh and busybox sh, is a bit more precise than getting $0. It’s based on HOWTO: Detect bash from shell script – Stack Overflow:
lsof -p $$ | awk '(NR==2) {print $1}'
But on ESXi it shows this because lsof doesn’t take any parameter there and just dumps all information:
----------+---------------------+---------------------+--------+------------------
It’s because lsof on ESXi always shows this header where Cartel and World aren’t exactly well documented:
Cartel | World name | Type | fd | Description
----------+---------------------+---------------------+--------+------------------
Empirically for non VM related processes, it looks like the Cartel is the PID and World name the command.
On Linux and BSD based systems, the header looks like this, so command and PID are reversed in ESXi:
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
This command then works on both ESXi, OS X, Linux and BSD assuming you can word search for the PID and noting that PID/command will be reversed on ESXi as compared to OSX/Linux/BSD:
lsof -p $$ | grep -w $$ | awk '(NR==2) {print $1,$2}'
–jeroen
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fixing a Mac home `brew update` that has permission errors (after that I could install plantuml)
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/26
I had this occurring on my system:
RetinaMBPro1TB:~ jeroenp$ brew update error: unable to unlink old 'Library/ENV/pkgconfig/10.11/libcurl.pc' (Permission denied) error: unable to unlink old 'Library/ENV/pkgconfig/10.11/libxml-2.0.pc' (Permission denied) error: unable to unlink old 'Library/ENV/pkgconfig/10.11/sqlite3.pc' (Permission denied) To restore the stashed changes to /usr/local run: 'cd /usr/local && git stash pop' Already up-to-date.
This is how I solved it:
RetinaMBPro1TB:~ jeroenp$ ls -al /usr/local | grep -w Library drwxr-xr-x+ 11 jeroenp admin 374 Mar 9 19:33 Library RetinaMBPro1TB:~ jeroenp$ sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local/Library/ Password: RetinaMBPro1TB:~ jeroenp$ brew update To restore the stashed changes to /usr/local run: 'cd /usr/local && git stash pop' Updated Homebrew from d32996d to 638d755. ==> New Formulae ... ==> Updated Formulae ... ==> Renamed Formulae ... ==> Deleted Formulae ... RetinaMBPro1TB:~ jeroenp$
The above solution is based on major python problems · Issue #48301 · Homebrew/homebrew
After that, I could install plantuml (which requires java, just so you know) so now I can create SVGs from it locally:
plantuml -tsvg PSO.network-diagram.PlantUML.txt
Note I had to edit the formula so it installs plantuml-8037 or higher (the git version back then installed plantuml-8031) as it fixed a namespace bug. Since plantuml releases often, be prepared to do some version fiddling.
–jeroen
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whatismylocalip alias (actually more like whataremylocalips) and some sed links
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/10
Getting the local IP (actually IPs, but most hosts only have a single IP):
# OS X:
alias whatismylocalip='ifconfig | sed -En '\''s/127.0.0.1//;s/.*inet (addr:)?(([0-9]*\.){3}[0-9]*).*/\2/p'\'''
# Linux:
alias whatismylocalip='ip a | sed -En '\''s/127.0.0.1//;s/.*inet (addr:)?(([0-9]*\.){3}[0-9]*).*/\2/p'\'''
I got them via bash – How to I get the primary IP address of the local machine on Linux and OS X? – Stack Overflow
Mac OS X and BSD have ifconfig, but most Linux distributions don’t use ifconfig any more in favour of iproute2, so you use ip a (which is shorthand for ip address show) there.
Their output is similar enough for the sed to work, though. Which surprised be because I didn’t know about the -E option (it lacks in the manual Linux page but it is in the Mac OS X one) which enables POSIX extended regular expressions. In Linux this is documented as -r, but -E also works.
I learned this through the Sed – An Introduction and Tutorial which compares the various versions of sed which also explains about the -n doing no printing.
–jeroen
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How to securely delete files in OS X 10.11 ‘El Capitan’ | MacIssues
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/23
Interesting: diskutil secureErase freespace LEVEL /Volumes/DRIVENAME
–jeroen
Source: How to securely delete files in OS X 10.11 ‘El Capitan’ | MacIssues
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Inspecting/unpacking a Linux rpm file on Mac OS X
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/18
You need this statement to unpack an rpm file on Mac OS X without having rpm installed:
rpm2cpio ##filename.rpm## | cpio -idmv
This will make rpm2cpio unpack the rpm file in the current directory using these cpio options:
- i – use the rpm2cpoio as unput
- d – created directories when needed
- m – set modification timestamps from the archive
- v – verbose filenames to
stderr
cpio is already part of the Mac OS X system.
You can get rpm2cpio through homebrew by typing brew install rpm2cpio which will likely also download he xz dependency.
–jeroen
via: rhel – Open a RPM on a Mac? – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
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