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Setting environment variables: manual - sample
Extract a macosx - package

# pax -r -f package.pax

Disable the .DS_Store files on SMB Volumes

$ defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true



of for all users

#!/bin/bash



defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true



cp $HOME/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktopservices.plist /Library/Preferences 

sudo chmod 777 /Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktopservices.plist

Audio trouble: iTunes and Quicktime play well - all other applications not? Solution

Optimize MacOsX
HFS defrag - hfsdebug
Services disable SpotLight - disable Dashboard 1/ 2 - disable NFS in /etc/hostconfig or /System/Library/StartupItems/NFS

fixing a broken os - start in single user mode

# dd bs=65k if=/dev/rdisk1 of=/Rettung/platte.dmg conv=noerror,sync

oder

# dd if=/Volumes/Daten/test.mov of=/Rettung/test.mov conv=noerror,sync

oder im Single-User-Mode

# /sbin/fsck -fy

# less /var/log/system.log

# /sbin/mount -uw /

Reset PRAM

fix macosxserver share - the hard way

#!/bin/bash

cd /Volumes/Daten

echo "fixing directories"

find . -type d -print -exec chmod a+rwx {} ;

echo "fixing files"

find . -type f -print -exec chmod a+rw {} ;

echo "fixing locked files"

chflags -R nouchg *

echo "deleting indd temp-lock files"

find . -name "*.idlk" -print -exec rm -f {} ;

compress TIFs older than 300 days and bigger than 5MByte

find /opt/www -name "*.tif*" -mtime +300 -size +5000000c -exec gz -9 {} ;

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Apple Developper Connection - ADC logon - GNU gcc

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Apache - PHP
TeTex - QT - Lyx - gcc 4.0, gettext-0.14.4, ghost-8.51, tetex-3.0, qt-3.3.4, lyx-1.4.0cvs
KDE - gcc 4.0, kde-3.4.1

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