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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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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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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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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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How do you enable syslogd to accept incoming connections on Snow Leopard from remote loggers?
How do I get syslogd to accept incoming connections from remote hosts on Snow Leopard?
I'd like to centralize logging such that various devices and systems send logs to Snow Leopard's syslogd, ...
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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 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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System logs in Mac OSX 10.6
Something is filling up my system log files, to the point that console.app will only show the last half hour of each file. It looks like something is trying to escape its sandbox, but I'm not exactly ...
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On Mac OS X, how do I clear out Console.app?
I'm trying to use Console.app to debug some problems on my Mac. I've cleared out the log files from inside /Library/Logs and ~/Library/Logs but I still have around 4000 messages left! I tried the ...
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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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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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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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Mac: What is /Users/PortDetect.log?
I have a file called /Users/PortDetect.log on my MacBook Pro, with contents like
Wed Nov 25 18:22:42 2009
-- PortDetect started...
Wed Nov 25 18:23:19 2009
-- PortDetect started...
Who is making ...
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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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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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