Hey, I am using the terminal a lot. Since I updated to Sonoma (so, really a long time ago). My prompt or more precise the hostname always changes between three states. Sometimes it is username@Macbook-Pro-of-***, sometimes username@MacbookPro and sometimes it's username@xxxxxxxx-yyyy-zzzz-aaaa-bbbbbbbbbbbb. The latter is probably my UUID. Does anyone have a clue why this randomly changes?

I updated my computer to Sonoma, and now my LaunchDaemon will not load. I have the following setup : File in /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.startup.plist like this : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Label</key> <string>com.startup</string> <key>ProgramArguments</key> <array> <string>/usr/local/bin/bash</string> <string>/Library/Scripts/Startup/startup.sh</string> </array> <key>RunAtLoad</key> <true/> <key>StandardErrorPath</key> <string>/tmp/com.startup.stderr</string> <key>StandardOutPath</key> <string>/tmp/com.startup.stdout</string> </dict> </plist> File in File in /Library/Scripts/Startup/startup.sh #!/bin/zsh PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users:/Users/root:/Users/root/Scripts:/Library/Scripts:/Library/Scripts/Startup #Load modules for Fuse /Library/Filesystems/macfuse.fs/Contents/Resources/load_macfuse /usr/sbin/sysctl -w vfs.generic.macfuse.tunables.allow_other=1 #Connect to XXXXXX_net /bin/sleep 28 myip=0 while [ $myip = 0 ] do /bin/sleep 3 myip=$(ifconfig -l | xargs -n1 ipconfig getifaddr) done /usr/local/bin/sshfs XXXX@XXXXXX.net: /Volumes/XXXXXX.net -o local,auto_cache,reconnect,ServerAliveInterval=15,ServerAliveCountMax=3,ConnectTimeout=5,daemon_timeout=60,iosize=2097152,volname=XXXXXX.net,allow_other,defer_permissions,async_read,Ciphers=aes128-gcm@openssh.com,Cipher=aes128-gcm@openssh.com,compression=no And then we need some commands to be run as root user during boot : /private/etc/sudoers.d/startup-script-nopasswd username ALL = (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/sysctl username ALL = (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/sshfs As of now, I cant even get the /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.startup.plist to run after i updated the macOS to Sonoma ….

I often need to remotely control a Mac that has the Remote Desktop application running on it. Thus I need to create a script to kill it remotely. The following command gives me the process number (PID) on the remote machine when logged in via SSH. What I need to know is how to pass that number to kill -3 to quit it with one command, bad thing can happen if you make a typo on PID ps -ax | grep "Remote Desktop.app" | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'

I write programs to do calculations. In order to automate some things I setup my Mac to consume a queue of jobs and a cron will check the queue and then run them through. I noticed that cron jobs run so much slower. As root I am running all the commands at nice -n -100 (yes I know -20 is the limit) if I run this command from the terminal it take 62 seconds. Checking the ps this is what I see: UID PID PPID F CPU PRI NI SZ RSS WCHAN S ADDR TTY TIME CMD STIME 0 17826 17195 4006 0 31 -20 413217088 581472 - R<+ 0 ttys000 16:11.07 /usr/local/bin/M 0.358 12:41PM Now comparing that to the cron'd job this same calculations will take 441 seconds. The ps comes out to: UID PID PPID F CPU PRI NI SZ RSS WCHAN S ADDR TTY TIME CMD STIME 0 18231 18230 4004 0 20 -20 411514512 515632 - R< 0 ?? 28:16.72 /usr/local/bin/M 12:47PM This is 7x slower! Both processes are at -20 NICE, but the priority for the cron job is 20 while running from terminal is 31. So I am guessing that priority is the mitigating factor here. I can't seem to figure out how to change the priority of the job. Lots resources out there just seem to think by changing nice you also change priority. But that is not the case. The question I have is how do I change the priority of a cron job (or any job in fact). I am running on a MacBook Pro (2013). I was thinking maybe Apple Mac Pro desktops could be setup differently but I just don't know.

I'm learning to use Vim in Xcode and within Terminal. I've used VimTutor to learn the basics. The issue I've run into when creating a text file is additional, garbage files being created whenever I create or edit a .txt file - vim index.txt produces the following: How do I prevent vim from creating the .index.html.un~ and index.html~ files? It's annoying me and git. Thanks, jake

I have a command line tool that zsh refuses to run when built for Apple Silicon or as a univerisal binary (the specific message is zsh: killed TOOL_NAME). I can only get it to run if I build it exclusively for Intel/Rosetta. Running/debugging from within Xcode works fine for any architecture. The tool is a very simple C/C++ unix command-line tool; it doesn't have any external dependencies beyond the C runtime and the C++ STL. I suspect something in code signing is going awry, but I've tried various team and certificate combinations without any luck. I've also tried enabling/disabling the app sandbox, also without any luck. (The app is not for distribution so it doesn't really need to be code signed at all.) Any suggestions?