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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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TextAnalysisTool.NET equivalent for OS X
I've used TextAnalysisTool.NET in the past for analyzing log files on Windows machines and found it incredibly useful. I love the simplicity+power that it achieves for dynamically grepping log files, ...
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How to show private data in macOS unified log within Xcode
I am getting runtime errors in Xcode involving interface builder. However, the system logger is sanitizing pertinent information contained in the logging.
Unknown class <private> in Interface ...
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Viewing the full Skype chat history
I have Skype 2.8 on Mac OS X 10.5.8.
Under the the chat menu is an option called "Recent Chats". This allows me to see logs of recent chats, but not of older ones.
I know the older ones are ...
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Tracking SSH access on a client MacOS machine
There are many sources describing how to track and detect SSH attempt on a server. What I am asking is the opposite. I have a MacOS (Ventura) and I would like to track where this machine has SSH-...
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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 decode tracev3 files?
How do I decode a .tracev3 file into a human-readable format?
See here for a description of why macOS creates .tracev3 files.
Thanks in advance,
James Pedersen
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User login "log" on Mac OS X
Does Mac OS record user logins/logouts?
I'm in a situation where I need to show that a certain user was logged in at a certain time (long story) less than four weeks ago.
Is this recorded at the Mac ...
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MacOS log each connection with related process
My new IDS is telling me that my host is behaving badly.
As I'm not sure of it, I'd need to investigate it further.
I'm working on a macOS Big Sur (11.2.1) host and, as soon as I receive a new ...
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How to get output to STDOUT in Rsync while only logging changes to “--log-file” the way Rsync 2.6.9 did with Rsync 3.x
As a longtime macOS user I have used the built-in/bundled rsync binary that has been stuck at version 2.6.9 for various licensing reasons.
I recently decided to start using modern rsync via Homebrew. ...
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Use iterm2 or terminal app which can filter results, not just highlight results
Right now I am on MacOS, and I am using iterm2 as my terminal app. It's got some great features but one limitation is that when I use ctrl-f to search for something, it will highlight the results in ...
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macOS Big Sur - high CPU usage before user login
Is there a way to log the system activities, such as errors or cpu usage data, before user login?
I'm using macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 on MacBook Pro 16 inch - 2019, and I found the machine is hot and the ...
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How can I start my network log in Safari right from the launch?
So far I have seen how I can use the Developer menu in Safari in order to analyze my network traffic and how I can preserve the logs. But I have to re-open my browser very often. Therefore I want to ...
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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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How to view time machine log in MacOS Sierra?
In previous version of OSX, I was able to view the results of past Time Machine backup jobs thus:
sudo syslog -F '$Time $Message' -k Sender com.apple.backupd
Now syslog is no longer part of the ...
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How to show private data in macOS unified log
I need to debug some problems regarding user login, but many somehow interesting information in the new unified log are hidden, like this (shortened):
opendirectoryd[130]: [com.apple.opendirectoryd:...
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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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Running OSX as a syslog server
I want to receive the logs from my router (an ASUS RT68U) on my laptop (OSX 10.9). It supports syslog and OSX has ASL (a superset of syslog, apparently). I've followed the instructions in OS X Lion as ...
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Redirect GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent Logging
I am debugging an issue on my Mac and I am therefore looking through the system logs. One thing I have noticed is the extreme abundance of multi-line messsages from GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent like the ...
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Show homebrew upgrade information again
When upgrading a package with homebrew, there are several information shown e.g. breaking changes or things to do after installation.
Is it possible to show this information after the upgrade again? ...
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wireslessproxd flooding my system log
Due to a disk problem i ended up in system.log today, only to find that about every 2-3 seconds the following information gets dumped into the log:
default 10:51:07.210542 +0200 wirelessproxd ...
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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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MacOS - How to change syslogd's log level for a specific process/program?
I am new to MacOS and I would like to get a better of view of what's going on with a system process when my computer is starting up. I can see in the log that a process is changing settings, but the ...
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OSX: Is there a log of connections?
I am the original owner of this question OSX log of connections?
but unfortunately something went wrong and i had to create a new account, so here i am. The question is: I was wondering if Mac OS X is ...
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User activity monitoring open source software
I was wondering if there is open source project similar to this commercial product SpectorPro.
I have been using it for some time now and I love how I can view all my activity as I would history in ...
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How can I track resource usage on a Mac?
I am looking for a way to log system resource usage (Memory, CPU, Disk IO, Network IO, Swap Usage, etc...) on a Mac. Most of the tools I have seen (Activity Monitor, top, and 3rd party tools) only ...
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Where do I find Google Chrome's logs on a mac?
My flash plugin keeps crashing and I would like to find the cause. Where are Chrome's logs located? I don't see any information on Google's site.
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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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Understanding OWA logs
I have a number of logs that I think are OWA logs. Titles such as microsoft.o365.shellg2.owa.js
microsoft.exchange.clients.owa2.client.calcorestrings.localized.min.js
Can anyone help me try and work ...
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Able to delete part of the system log files on Mac OSX El Capitan based on a time period?
I was wondering if it was possible to delete only a portion of the system log files on the Mac OSX El Capitan based on a time period? Say I want to delete all activities that occurred between 9am - ...
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