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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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