Friday, October 28, 2011

NFS shares

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Show NFS shares exported from a host (can also point to localhost): showmount -e 192.168.1.1 /etc/exports line on linux (share /blah with 1...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Installing pip and virtualenv on OS X

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Download and install the appropriate easy_install egg. sudo sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.X.egg and from then on it is the same as for linux s...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

OSX launchd and inetd services

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Apple has an epic writeup of how daemons should be written for OS X, Mach execution contexts, IPC and more in TN2083 . This post is just som...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Force MCX refresh - apply policy without a logout/reboot

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If you are managing settings with MCX (e.g. like this ), you want your MCX settings to apply as soon as they are pushed to the machine. Unf...

Puppet expansion of facts inside command strings requires double quoted string

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Small gotcha for puppet facts. If you want a puppet fact to be expanded inside a quoted string you need to use double quotes (i.e. a ruby-s...
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Chrome Extensions vs. Apps vs. Themes and what it looks like in your extensions directory

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If you look in your chrome extensions directory on disk, things are a little confusing. There are extensions, which you can see listed at ...
Friday, October 7, 2011

Using OS X directory services (dscl, dseditgroup) in single user mode

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To access directory services you first need a writable root: mount -uw / Then you need the daemon loaded. On snow leopard: launchctl load...