All Questions
991
questions
0
votes
0
answers
235
views
External Harddrive: Compatible Partitions types
I have an external harddrive, which has a partition of NTFS and 300 GB of unallocated space. Is it possible to use that unallocated space to create a paartition on Macos? The disk utility doesn't let ...
- 473
1
vote
0
answers
1k
views
Is the macOS/Linux shell the same thing as Bash?
sorry if this is a silly question, but are there any differences between Bash and the macOS/Linux shell? (not all Linux distros use the Bash shell right?)
- 45
0
votes
1
answer
345
views
Dead key behavior on Windows and Linux
When a dead key is pressed in Windows nothing is displayed. But in macOS, when a dead key is pressed the corresponding terminator is displayed and highlighted, awaiting another key to be pressed.
Is ...
1
vote
0
answers
47
views
Dropbox.com works in VM host but not guest, all other sites work in guest
Dropbox.com works in VM host but not guest, all other sites work in guest.
Host: MacOS 11
VM: VMWare Fusion 12
Guest: Arch Linux, VM NAT networking
No iptables rules in VM.
ca-certificates (20210603-1)...
- 33
1
vote
0
answers
199
views
Utilize `fswatch` to improve `rsync`'s speed?
I have some huge folders containing about 40000 files (and much, much more gitignored files like node_modules), and I want to rsync to a remote machine.
Currently, I use a simple script like run_rsync;...
- 123
1
vote
1
answer
190
views
Local overwrite of an executable is not working on mac os x
On mac os x, I'd like to be able to have arguments to head after the filename, like on ubuntu: head <filename> -n 2
So I have a head executable in ~/bin/head and that's listed before /usr/bin in ...
- 507
0
votes
1
answer
382
views
Nix package manager: how to have uuidgen command?
I am new to nix and nixos and I want to have the uuidgen command available. I don't see uuid-runtime and linux-utils didn't contained it. I don't see any specific documentation on how to get this ...
0
votes
2
answers
156
views
On a UNIX system that is quickly running out of space (MacOS, GNU/Linux) - what is fastest way to find which process and FS path is responsible?
This is a scenario that I experienced both on MacOS and GNU/Linux - a rogue process starts eating disk space. Very fast. You can see with iostat massive writes, with df -h that percents of free space ...
- 2,401
0
votes
1
answer
154
views
Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS + Wacom Volito tablet drivers settings (Linux/Unix/MacOs)
I connected very old tablet Wacom Volito to the Ubuntu 20.04 and it behaves correctly as tablet, out of the box (no additional drivers installed). Connected to macOS Big Sur it behaves as mouse.
Where ...
1
vote
1
answer
1k
views
Access Android Emulator running on host machine (mac) from Vmware fusion 12.2.1 (Linux)
I am trying to run an Android Emulator on my host machine which is a Mac OS and connect to it from my Vmware fusion guest machine which is a Linux.
I tried all network configurations and also tried to ...
- 71
3
votes
1
answer
1k
views
Filter stdin of process executed with socat client
My question is: is there a way to pre-process the stdin of a command executed via socat client.
Context:
I am launching a reverse shell with socat using this command:
$> socat -T30 "openssl-...
2
votes
3
answers
9k
views
0
votes
0
answers
624
views
How to split a video into very small equal chunks using FFMPEG?
I'm trying to split a video file into 0.5s chunks. The closest command I've found is here (see command below):
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34249159/how-to-get-equal-segment-times-using-ffmpeg
...
5
votes
1
answer
4k
views
QEMU aarch64 on ARM Mac never boots and only shows (qemu) prompt
I'm trying to emulate aarch64 and/or arm using qemu on ARM/M1 macOS. However, after multiple installer isos (ubuntu aarch64, standard alpine aarch64, etc) I can't seem to get anything but a blank ...
- 201
5
votes
2
answers
2k
views
scp from linux to an external drive on mac
I have been using the following command to copy between a linux machine and a mac and it works fine:
scp -r /home/ubuntu/Desktop/somefolder username@ipaddress:/Users/username/Documents/somefolder
But ...
- 201
0
votes
2
answers
741
views
GNU `find` error: "find: failed to read file names from file system at or below ‘/’ : No such file or directory"
OS: macOS Big Sur 11.6
I'm trying to find all files on my system that match a pattern so I can delete extraneous files after removing an application. For this purpose the application is RStudio.
I'm ...
- 1
0
votes
1
answer
62
views
Cannot access website due to incorrect DNS configurations; new devices can access with updated correct DNS, but not old ones
Like said in the long title, I can't access my site hosted on AWS with AWS Route 53 Hosted Zone. When I initially configured my DNS, there may have been something wrong with the A records which ...
- 101
0
votes
1
answer
605
views
Sharing a network drive over WAN with MacOS and Linux
I would like to share a network drive in a way that can be accessed from both MacOS and Linux, over the internet. I have a home Linux server, as well as one on AWS. The MacOS computer will be another ...
- 101
3
votes
2
answers
5k
views
sudo kill -9 pid doesn't kill softwareupdated in mac
I have a process softwareupdated which is consuming lot of data. I just want to close the process as I dont want to update .
I tried sudo kill -9 pid but it doesn't kill softwareupdated in mac.
I keep ...
- 131
0
votes
0
answers
172
views
Including chmod in shell script - will it work for everyone?
I have a large wrapper.sh file which does a lot of things, but in the end runs catalina.sh tomcat.
Problem is that users who run this wrapper.sh are experiencing error: no permissions to execute ...
- 101
1
vote
1
answer
2k
views
“Find My Device” equivalent for Linux
I’m thinking of switching to Linux (either Debian or Ubuntu, haven’t decided) from macOS. One of the features of macOS I love is “Find My Device,” which allows me to locate my device if I lose it, ...
- 11
-1
votes
2
answers
183
views
Custom physical keyboard that launches apps
Is it possible to make a custom keyboard (or use one already made) and assign to each key an application to be launched when the key is pressed?
Something that works like a physical dock (for Mac ...
- 101
1
vote
1
answer
405
views
How to fix broken "newline" from Mac to Windows
I have been given a set of python codes (.py) which were written on Mac. Unfortunately, when I open them on windows (pycharm, notepad, even word), there are no line breaks. I asked for .txt versions ...
- 135
1
vote
0
answers
662
views
How to use one external hard drive to back up Windows and Linux as well as macOS with Time Machine?
I have an external hard disk drive I use for all of my backups.
I created an NTFS partition that I backed up Windows 10 to.
Then I created an ext4 partition and backed up Linux Mint to that.
Now, I ...
- 111
0
votes
0
answers
313
views
Terminal opens with a command not found error
I checked the .bash_profile and .zprofile, but it is empty.
Also .bashrc or .zshrc do not exist in my home directory.
Terminal window
0
votes
1
answer
324
views
Difficulty setting up internet sharing on Beaglebone on macOS Big Sur
I am having trouble setting up an internet to be shared on Beaglebone (BB) through the host (Mac running Big Sur OS).
When I do ifconfig on BB, I see two USB interfaces showing up (usb0, usb1) with a ...
- 103
1
vote
0
answers
169
views
is there any way to install libgranite-dev on mac os?
I'm trying to get the elementary OS terminal working on mac. The installation process of this terminal is described here.
after downloading the folder with the code files and typing:
meson build --...
- 111
0
votes
1
answer
6k
views
Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908) Error after upgrading to Big Sur [VirtualBox]
I just upgraded my Mac to Big Sur and upon starting a VirtualBox session, I get the following:
Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)
Make sure the kernel module has been loaded successfully.
where: ...
- 103
0
votes
1
answer
2k
views
Possible to hide the status bar for ONE particular tmux session (but not the others)?
I use a couple cheap fire tablets I have left over + ssh + tmux to run as an always up to date visual look at my taskwarrior and timewarrior status.
it works great!
but because of the limited screen ...
0
votes
0
answers
53
views
Enable sharing of a folder and copy pasting between a Mac and a virtual machine
I want to enable sharing between my Mac and a virtual machine running Ubuntu image, and I see one way is to enable sharing of the folders but I keep seeing wrong fs type bad option bad superblock ...
- 103