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Mac OS X is an operating system from Apple Inc. It was the successor to Mac OS 9 and here the 'X' means 10. Mac OS X is based upon the NeXTSTEP and OpenStep OSes developed in the 1980s and 1990s by NeXT Inc., which Apple purchased in 1996.

Mac OS X consists of a Mach/BSD-based kernel, userland primarily based on FreeBSD, and additional frameworks (written in C, C++ and Objective-C) providing user interface and application-level services.

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Why is Mac OSX Lion losing login/network credentials?

Symptoms At work we have OSX 10.7.3 installed and every once in a while I will see the following behaviors: If the the screen is locked, then multiple tries of the same user/pass are not accepted. If the screen is unlocked, then opening a new bash…
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How to scroll back in screen within a ssh session from OS X?

I do the following: Open Terminal.app Open a ssh session to a remote Linux server Open a screen session on the server Start a program who breaks with many lines of error reporting… How can I scroll up to read that? And no, fixing the program is…
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SSH through intermediate host fails only on myuser@mymac but works elsewhere

I am not able to connect via ssh to one of my datacenter nodes using my user on my macbook. This is a recent problem, and it was perfectly funtional since ~ a couple of weeks ago. Strangely, this only affects my user on my computer, but I am able…
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How to access LVM partitions on OS X?

I need to access ext3 partitions over an LVM logical volume in a SATA HD connected through USB2 to my iMac with OS X 10.6 . Is it possible to see LVM volumes from OS X? How? Disk Utility says that the attached device is unknown and propose to…
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Difference between ulimit, launchctl, sysctl?

When managing the limits of the operating system (specifically OSX), what is the difference and overlap between the functionality and history of these three tools: ulimit launchctl, launchd sysctl I found it confusing to adjust the maximum…
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Where are OS X man pages stored?

I have installed iftop on Mac OS X 10.7 from source but the installer didn't copy the man page to where it should be. I have no idea where it should be either. Does anyone know where I should cp it to? I found this thread…
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How to make a Macintosh register a Hostname to the DHCP Server?

I have a MacBook running Snow Leopard in our company's internal network, which is basically a Windows domain network. Our TO department complains about my MacBook not specifying a name to the DHCP server. Accordingly, the MacBook isn't resolvable by…
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What is your list of programs to install to Mac OS X after a fresh install?

Similar to the Windows question, but for Mac OS X. I am looking for others' list of program that absolutely must be installed to a fresh install of Windows before going any further. I hope to compile a list here to use as reference for all new…
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Why do you have to create a directory before you can mount a share?

Why do you have to create a directory before you can mount a share to it? Eg: I've never understood why mkdir is needed here: mkdir /Volumes/foo mount -t afp afp://username:pass@pretendco.com/foo /Volumes/foo
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GUI in MacOS for defaults?

I'm not a Mac person (yet, plan to add that to the repertoire this year) but I've been following a lot of the Mac questions on SF. The defaults command comes up a lot and from the context of the questions / answers I get what it does. Just…
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Do I need to defrag MacOSX filesystems?

The equivalent linux question reminded me of the bad performance of my MacBookPro. I'm not even sure what the default FS nowadays is. I read somewhere that there is a cron job which runs on friday or saturday which does such stuff. So do I need to…
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Check if a path exceeds maximum for Unix domain socket

Operating systems limit the length of a path of a Unix domain socket. How can I check whether a particular path is within that limit? Or, to put it another way, how can I check the maximum permitted length of a path of a Unix domain socket, on a…
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Windows Server 2012 R2 performance for Mac OS X Clients (File Services)

I am inheriting a Windows 2012 R2 Server that is experiencing abysmal SMB/CIFS performance for Mac OS X Clients in particular. The server is doing file services and is an Active Directory Domain Controller (one of two for the domain). It is the PDC…
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Unable to bind OSX 10.9 to Active Directory 2008

I am struggling to bind OSX 10.9 to a 2008 r2 Active Directory. I can join the domain fine when I boot into Windows from the same machine. From OSX I can find the domain controller successfully and have verified consistency of Active Directory…
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Should I install Ansible with python pip or homebrew on Mac OSX Mavericks?

I recently moved to using OSX to administrate my linux box, so I'm very new to using linux programs on OSX. I want to use Vagrant with Ansible to bootstrap my development environment, so I need to install it first. However I've discovered two ways…
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