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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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hdparm on OS X

On Linux, I can verify and change the low level parameters of my disk drive using hdparm. Is there an utility providing the same capabilities for OS X, or perhaps some other way of manipulating the parameters? Anders
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Assigning Multiple IP Addresses to localhost OS X 10.6

I'm attempting to host multiple website locally with HTTPS enabled, but in order to do this I'd need to configure my local machine to use multiple IP address for localhost (I believe). Is there any way to have multiple IP addresses resolving…
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VNC from Windows to Mac freezing constantly

I'm trying to VNC into an OSX 10.4.11 box from Vista using RealVNC and TightVNC. I can connect successfully, but after a minute or so my VNC window freezes completely, while on the Mac the AppleVncServer process starts eating up huge amounts of RAM…
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SSH through a SOCKS Proxy? (client = OpenSSH OS X)

I'm not sure if this question is best suited here on ServerFault or over on SuperUser. Thinking about it logically I think this is a sysadmin question, so I'm putting it here, and if the mods think it should move, then apologies for guessing…
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OSX how to show apache status in terminal?

I noticed that on my linux server when i type apachectl restart it gives me little but helpful feedback such as restarting and then [ok] or [fail] at the end of the line. Not much, but at least I know what is going on, and I can go check logs. On…
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FreeBSD: periodic(8) is too noisy. How can I control the noise level?

FreeBSD & MacOSX ship with the the periodic(8) utility, which is a neatly organized set of utilities to periodically run system functions like ZFS filesystem checks, security checks, checking for out of date ports, etc. The problem is that periodic…
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Can't resolve host through VPN connection from Mac OS X

The Preamble I set up a VPN connection from my Macbook, and it seems to connect successfully. However, I can't access my work computer because hostname doesn't get resolved: $ ping myusername ping: cannot resolve myusername: Unknown host The New…
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Why does CTRL-r act weirdly (showing only part of a command) on OS X

Ctrl+r is a great little tool for searching your .bash_history for previously run commands. However, when I use it in my OS X Terminal.app I see weird behavior, and I was wondering if anyone else sees the same thing or knows how to fix…
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How can I telnet to an IPv6 host using Mac OS X?

I’m testing IPv6 on a corporate network and having problems with OS X. With most IPv6 commands, such as telnet -6 or traceroute6, I get the error: connect: No route to host For example, I have a web server. This fails: $ telnet -6 fe80::… 80 #…
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Forwarding port 3306 on Mac OS X in order to connect to a remote MySQL Database

I'm on Mac OS X 10.6.2 trying to connect to ubuntu server 8.04.1 at linode. ssh -L 127.0.0.1:3306:[[remote ip]]:3306 user@server -N I want to set up ssh tunneling so that I can access a remote mysql server. First of all, I'm told bind: Address…
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How to change ownership of a folder using terminal

How do I change the ownership of folders on a secondary hard drive using chown to make the folder owner be administrator? When I use: chown -R username foldername I get an error Read Only filesystem Does anyone have ideas?
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How do I enable IP-forwarding in MacOS X?

What is the correct way to enable IP-forwarding in MacOS X? More specifically, what is the MacOS X command line quivalent of the following two Linux commands: echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward iptables -A FORWARD -j ACCEPT
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Mono's XSP4 on OSX gives Access Forbidden (error 500) for any .aspx or .asp file

I'm on a Mac trying to locally host a copy of an old ASP-based site for testing purposes. Not (yet) using mod_mono for Apache, just the basic standalone XSP server. It was enough of an ordeal just getting to the point where I can at least display a…
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Connection Refused for Apache 2.4 Virtual Host

I have Apache 2.4 running on Mac OS X. apachectl configtest give me: Syntax OK. I have two virtual hosts set up, one called localhost, one called test.dev. DocumentRoot "/Users/psychomachine/Development/_localhost" …
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OS X Command Line IPv4 interface Reset

Juniper's Network Connect VPN client seems to leave an OS X network interface in an unusable state if it does not disconnect gracefully. Edit: "disconnect gracefully" refers to any time the VPN drops for reasons other than clicking the "Sign Out"…
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