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how to enable or disable spotlight disc indexing from the terminal. all the following work on root "/". to specify another volume, put its path at end of the command
1 1004 posted 16 years ago by stiobhart
0 825 posted 16 years ago by randyjhunt
1 1153 posted 16 years ago by fnurl
Simply open up terminal and run these commands one at a time. You may need sudo or root access.
0 1046 posted 16 years ago by chrisaiv
`lookupd` doens't exist in Leopard, instead `dscacheutil` should be used.
2 1406 posted 16 years ago by rastersize
Place this in your ~/.bash_profile then type tab in your terminal window to see some magic happen.
0 1104 posted 16 years ago by zingo
When installing mysql and mysql-dev with fink, gem is unable to find the mysql headers and libraries: you should specify their location. If compiled manually from source, gem will find it if /usr/local/mysql (or what ever other location you specified...
0 1007 posted 17 years ago by iblis
recover to normal speed with /sbin/ipfw delete 100 /sbin/ipfw delete 200 ... or reboot
0 1248 posted 17 years ago by zingo
This command will not delete the .DS_Store files from the file system, just take them out of version control. Before doing this it would be a good idea to setup the repository to ignore .DS_Store files.
1 1949 posted 17 years ago by jachin
0 1176 posted 17 years ago by zingo
0 1195 posted 17 years ago by zingo
2 1191 posted 17 years ago by zingo
When Apache under OS X throws 'Forbidden' errors on files under the ~/Sites path, and the error log report 'Permission denied: access to /somefile/blah failed because search permissions are missing on a component of the path', check a missing Other E...
1 1207 posted 17 years ago by cczona
A very dynamic and flexible bash prompt. Personally I find this to have everything needed. It shows exit status, shortens itself for long directories, and shows bash history for easy referencing. Hopefully it doesn't get messed up.
2 1073 posted 17 years ago by robh
0 974 posted 17 years ago by benpjohnson
After: sudo port -v selfupdate Update outdated ports with: sudo port upgrade outdated
1 1064 posted 17 years ago by rhockens
After installing MacPorts, try running a selfupdate to grab all the latest MacPorts Portfiles (Portfiles contain information about how to install MacPorts software "ports"). You will need to run this command as an administrator, and it requires root...
0 957 posted 17 years ago by rhockens
[quote] Verbose booting shows you the actual process of Mac OS X's startup. You'll see drivers get loaded and services launch. This command should work on any recent (New World) Macintosh: sudo /usr/sbin/nvram boot-args="-v". The -v flag tells the s...
0 971 posted 17 years ago by rhockens
"...UNIX systems run scheduled maintenance routines — known as maintenance scripts — to clean up a variety of System logs and temporary files. By default, these are executed between 03:15 and 05:30 hours local time, depending on the script. If...
1 1149 posted 17 years ago by rhockens
List the current version and installation date of every application on a OS X system, using of Spotlight.
1 946 posted 17 years ago by zingo
8 1175 posted 18 years ago by zingo
Run this command in the Terminal on Mac OS X to flush the DNS cache on your computer. This is especially helpful when making changes to the host file.
2 1692 posted 18 years ago by jonhenshaw
Mount Samba share from osx terminal, might not show up in Finder
0 1750 posted 18 years ago by vanne
0 928 posted 18 years ago by tgunr
Enter this at the commandline.
0 1139 posted 18 years ago by Roshambo
0 1427 posted 18 years ago by netjackal
Obviously you need to have heartbeatd handled by Launchd
0 944 posted 18 years ago by smoothnoodle
0 966 posted 18 years ago by whitetiger
0 997 posted 18 years ago by whitetiger