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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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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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Mac ASL: Unable to see my application's log messages
I have just added ASL logging support to my application (a compiled binary) but I cannot see any log entries using Console.app. I am logging with facility 'com.mydomain.myapp' (that's not the actual ...
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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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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 - 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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