Archive for the 'osx' Category

/opt/local/bin/gcp on OSX

Published on December 28, 2010 in osx. 0 Comments Tags: .

I needed /opt/local/bin/gcp on OSX to run rsnapshot

Start with macports, and the package you need to install is coreutils

user path in osx

Published on July 22, 2009 in osx. 0 Comments

One would think it would be simpler to find the best practice way of modifying a users path on OSX. Apparently this is it (because this mechanism will influence GUI’s as well).

me@blah ~/.MacOSX
$ defaults read ~/.MacOSX/environment
{
    PATH = "/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/opt/local/bin";
}
 
me@blah ~/.MacOSX
$ defaults write  ~/.MacOSX/environment PATH "~/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/opt/local/bin"
 
me@blah ~/.MacOSX
$ defaults read ~/.MacOSX/environment{
    PATH = "~/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/opt/local/bin";
}

Monitoring multiple gmail accounts

Published on March 6, 2009 in osx. 0 Comments Tags: .

multiply-gmail-notifiers

I found this great post on how to use the google notifier on multiple gmail accounts. Works a treat, actually macoshints.com has lots of really great hints, the best bit is that the hints are generally well considered and substantiated as valid and workable solutions.

Check it out.
Pete