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How to aggregate and sort real-time stout/logs on Mac?
I am developing a rails and scala application that uses MySQL, Redis, MongoDB and memcached on OSX.
It is rather annoying to always have 6 terminals open and go through the logs there, so I was ...
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How can I track and log CPU and memory usage on a Mac?
I know I can use Activity Monitor (as well as a slew of 3rd party applications) to monitor the usage of RAM and CPU on my Mac. However, I want to capture a log over an amount of time so that I can ...
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Mac Console - Coloring Specific Log Messages
I often use the Mac Console to monitor my web server logs. These logs are quite verbose, and it becomes difficult to scroll through them to monitor for errors.
Each message in the log has a format of:...
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How to set the logging clause for a chrooted BIND?
This question is a bit similar to this one but the answer that seemed to help the most is Ubuntu specific, and this is running on OSX 10.6.8.
With this logging clause:
logging {
category ...
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How to find logs of Remote Management and Remote Login on my Mac?
Today I was going to share my WiFi internet connection, when I realized I had the Remote Management sharing turned on, on my Mac, giving all privileges to all users including Guests.
I thought it was ...
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Documenting software-updates semi-automatically in MacOS X by parsing log files?
I'd like to document changes I made to my computer (running MacOS 10.6.8) to be able to identify the sources of eventual problems.
Mostly I install updates when a software notifies me about a newer ...
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Windows 7 share not accessible from OSX - how to debug
I have a Win7 machine and a shared directory on that. Users log on via a domain. This all works fine from another Windows client, but not from Macs at all (Lion or Mountain Lion). The OSX error ...
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Can I remotely monitor printf results of a C program?
I have a long running C program in which I've started from the Terminal.app using:
gdb program_name
gdb run
I'm using many printf statements to monitor the progress of the program. Unfortunately, ...
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Are timestamps available for system log entries on OS X?
Busy troubleshooting the cause of a slow startup sequence on OS X.
It hangs for about 10 minutes at one point, and thus the ability to see where this occurs, would be super useful.
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Where is the log from repairing an Outlook 2011 database?
Where is the log from repairing an Outlook 2011 database?
I have a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.6.
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Getting chat history in AIM on Mac
I need to search through my previous messages or chat conversations I have had with my friends.
I need something like what Gmail gives you, i.e. automatically save all the chats.
Is there a way to ...
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get public IP from a network that I was connected to earlier
1 hour ago I was connected to my office WiFi network with my Macbook. Now I'm at home and need the public IP address from that office network because the dyndns update failed and I need to remote ...
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OS X Time Machine log
How can I find out what really being or was backed up by my Time Machine/Capsule? Is there a log somewhere or perhaps I can throw --verbose somewhere to make sure it gets logged now? I see a 700mb ...
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dmesg.log on Mac OS X
Mac OS X does not seem to dump the exact output of dmesg to a file. I need to log the dump of dmesg to the disk.
kernel.log and system.log do not contain the required information. Only output of ...
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Where is the log file generated by a verbose start-up in OS X Lion?
After starting up my machine in verbose mode (cmd + v at start-up) I want to view the generated log messages, to debug an error I'm receiving (the error). The error is only displayed on the screen ...
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