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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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List of files that control logging and the corresponding log files OSX
The title should be clear. However, some logging done by syslogd can be controlled using asl.conf.
Where can I find a list of files that control all the other log files that come as standard? (not ...
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MacBook Pro 13 early 2011 random restarts and verbose log needed
I have a MacBook Pro 13 Early 2011 model that has been experiencing some random restarts (across OS’s Mavericks and Yosemite). I have tried almost every fix offered online. SMC PRAM reset, reseating ...
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Detect bad shutdowns in OSX
Is there a way to detect bad shutdowns in OS X?
The best I can come up with is parsing /var/log/system.log for lines like this:
12118 Jan 28 21:51:38 localhost bootlog[0]: BOOT_TIME 1422492698 0
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Does OS X log my IP address?
I need to know which IP address I was using two days ago. Is there any log file in OS X that contains this information?
Update: And Chrome for Mac could store this information somewhere?
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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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What is a Simple Way to Log Basic Macbook Activity?
I would like access to the following data about my Macbook use:
when it is active / asleep
the active application at all times
certain state information about the active application, such as the ...
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Throttling respawn messages to terminal with launchd: is this normal?
I have a launchd agent set up using the WatchPaths feature. It looks something like
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www....
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Writing CPU usage by core and RAM/CPU usage by process to a logfile in OS X
I am writing a script that writes memory and CPU usage to a log file, every hour on a cronjob. The logfile will look something like this:
"/n====CPU usage by core===="
Core0: 59.05% used
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Why is my Mac contacting Romania?
I just used Onyx to clean out my caches and log files after which I did a reboot. Browsing the "All Messages" panel of the Console app I noticed this line:
10/27/13 3:38:03.000 PM kernel: 5.106.198....
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How do I fix these strange messages in my Mac's log?
I keep getting the following messages in my computer's log:
13-07-15 3:13:37 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.InternetSharing) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
13-07-15 3:13:57 PM ...
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USB device removal log on OS X
We recently had an USB software dongle stolen from our studio containing very expensive software. If we can work out what date/time it was taken over the last 3 weeks, we can probably identify who did ...
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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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Console.app alternative for Terminal
Is there a neater way to follow console messages in Terminal rather than tail -f tons of logs?
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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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Secure delete logs in Mac OS X
Securely erasing data from OS X is easy. But is there a way to securely erase all logfiles (including the system logs contained in some database) without actually messing the system up?
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How can system logs be enabled in Snow Leopard?
I have a MacBook Pro running 10.6.7 and for a while now it hasn't been logging anything to the system logs. When I look in the Console's All Messages the only logs I see look like this (and it ...
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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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