Comments on: 40 Useful Mac OS X Shell Scripts and Terminal Commands

By: appsmenow

appsmenow — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:21:38 +0000

thanks! great scripts
very useful for me

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 04:16:41 +0000

Sorry for the late approval, I’ve been away from my mac.

If you’re using little snitch or something similar, see this:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/857/cpsid_85711.html

…If not, then your mac won’t be firewalled. People have reported problems with this software. If you have freezing issues you should try upgrading all codecs and plugins first. Good Luck!

By: Tamara

Tamara — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:14:17 +0000

How to i enable “Adobe QT 32 Server” on my Firewall?

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 16 May 2011 13:05:04 +0000

If you're using an airport device with the Airport Utility, it's easy (Wireless Options -> Create a Closed Network), but if you're talking about internet sharing then sorry, the best information I can find is this, which seems to indicate that it can't be done. I'd pick up a cheap airport device and use that... good luck in any case...

By: pelchatsw

pelchatsw — Sun, 15 May 2011 17:05:51 +0000

is there a command to disable ssid broadcast when making your own adhoc network….yes yes i know it doesnt make it more secure i just really want to know because we are not allowed to use wifi in afghanistan and i want to share my macs ethernet internet to my ipad but i dont want them to know im doing this….and no they do not have sniffing software.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:36:19 +0000

Depends. To disable sleep in any condition:
pmset -a sleep 0

To disable sleep only when AC power (charger) is present:
pmset -c sleep 0

…you will probably need to ‘sudo’ these.
…Also just note that I got this info from the pmset man page on my Mac. It should work as documented, but I haven’t tested it. Finally, I would urge caution when disabling sleep in the absence of AC power.

Have fun with your new MacBook Server (or whatever)!

By: Nishant

Nishant — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:49:55 +0000

How to disable sleep mode permanently command?

Please suggest.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 22:51:28 +0000

You need to run command in A in the terminal on your mac, and select and copy the line of text it returns. This is a username/password combo, which you paste into a new file named ‘.htpasswd’ in the folder you want to protect. The contents of B are not typed in the terminal, they are pasted into another text file named ‘.htaccess’ – make sure you update the ‘AuthUserFile’ line to reflect the actual location of the .htpasswd file you created above. Usually its something like /home/example.com/public_html/.htpasswd.

Note that this is a command for protecting folders on apache web servers, not on your Mac. I suspect you might actually be after a tip to do the latter? If so, just select the folder you want to control in the finder, hit cmd I, and then under ‘Sharing & Permissions’ make sure your own login has ‘Read and Write’ access then set everyone else to ‘No Access.’

You can also protect a folder by making an encrypted disk image, which seems to work well. Instructions here: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1578

By: CTM

CTM — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:53:12 +0000

I’m having some issues with the one to password protect a folder. Granted, I’m brand new to using terminal so i’m probably making a really obvious mistake that people will laugh at me for, but what does it mean that your instructions have the commands on separate lines? Are they to be entered individually, or just in a string on one line? I tried the latter but it said ‘-bash: AuthType: command not found’

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:37:10 +0000

Hmm, well I have actually never used single-user mode, sorry, but if you can get terminal access then from the terminal you can get the pid of Apache with ‘top’ (look for ‘httpd’), then ‘kill -9 [pid].’ There may be several processes for httpd depending on your configuration.

Hope that helps…