Comment by Edward Ned Harvey on Mac Lion: fstab is deprecated. so what...
Adaś, in mountblockd, the plist says to enter volume name. But I have two volumes with the same name. Can the plist take UUID instead?
View ArticleComment by Edward Ned Harvey on How to create app shortcut in Windows 8 /...
There is one caveat: It works if you click the Start Menu, go to All Apps, and then drag the Mail app into (for example) the startup folder (shell:startup). But it does not work if you click the Start...
View ArticleComment by Edward Ned Harvey on Disable Windows 7 screensaver over RDP
Since this answer didn't answer your question, you should consider un-selecting it as an answer. You should accept BajaResident's answer, about TaskScheduler.
View ArticleComment by Edward Ned Harvey on Ansible: How to recursively set directory and...
Your answer will set all subfiles and subdirectories to 644, while setting only the top-level directory to 775. The need is for all directories to be 775, including subdirectories.
View ArticleComment by Edward Ned Harvey on Bash scripting: test for empty directory
Oh no! There is a very important problem with this code. It should be if [ -n "$(ls -A /path/to/dir)" ]; then ... Please update the answer before someone pastes this code into their server somewhere...
View ArticleComment by Edward Ned Harvey on Delayed messages in Slack
I get "[...] is not a valid command."
View ArticleAnswer by Edward Ned Harvey for What characters are forbidden in OS X filenames?
According to wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HFS_Plus any unicode character is allowed, including NUL. But many applications will impose restrictions of their own, such as '/' and so on.
View ArticleAnswer by Edward Ned Harvey for How to force partition to value out of range
Got it. This worked for me: By launching sudo parted I was able to do unit s to switch to sectors, and p to see the current table, and mkpart logical 501760 41940991 to recreate the partition. And quit...
View ArticleAfter time machine restore, zillions of .com.apple.backupd.mdmv files?
I used time machine to restore OSX. After restoring, there are zillions of .com.apple.backupd.mdmvXXXXXX files everywhere. XXXXXX is a seemingly random number, typically 7-8 digits long. There seems...
View ArticleAnswer by Edward Ned Harvey for Run Metro application on startup?
The answer from vhanla (Nov 1, '12) has a problem: you're only launching the default application. For example, if I run mailto: then Outlook opens, not Mail. In Windows 10, there's another way: If you...
View ArticleHow to create app shortcut in Windows 8 / Windows 10
For some apps (for example, Outlook) I can easily create a shortcut by hitting the start menu, typing in "Outlook" and right-click, open file location, and then I can right-click to Create Shortcut,...
View ArticleAnswer by Edward Ned Harvey for RSync to WebDAV mounted volume very slow
I have found that Mac OSX webdav mounting is unreliable (10.11.6 El Capitan). If I use rsync, tar, cp, or any other tool, some of the files come across corrupted. I can repeat and repeat, but different...
View ArticleHow do you launch a Windows 10 app at startup? [duplicate]
This question already has an answer here: Run Metro application on startup? 5 answers Some programs (for example, Outlook) you can launch at startup by creating a shortcut. You press Win+R, type in...
View ArticleAnsible: How to recursively set directory and file permissions
In ansible, I can do this: file: dest=/foo/bar/somedir owner=root group=apache mode=0775 recurse=yes And it recursively sets the owner, group, and permissions to 0775 on all directories and files in...
View ArticleHow to force partition to value out of range
I have an ubuntu desktop system (VM guest), whose partitions were created by the install media. I wanted to expand the disk, so I shutdown the guest, and increased the disk size of the guest in the...
View ArticleComment by Edward Ned Harvey on What files does ypdomainname change on rhel8...
Thanks, you nailed it. :-) Add this: For RHEL/Centos 6, 7, and 8 (and probably older versions), echo "NISDOMAIN=whatever" >> /etc/sysconfig/network and I'll accept the answer.
View ArticleWhat files does ypdomainname change on rhel8 / centos8?
When I run ypdomainname somedomain, it clearly takes effect, because ypdomainname will show the state changed, before and after. I need to deploy this change via configuration management, and can't...
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