terminal

Hi guys... When I right click on any folder, I click "get info". Then I move down to "Ownership & Permissions", and then 'details'. Under "details", when I click on the scroll-down list of 'owner' and 'group', I have all these users/groups that I never created. I only recognized my user...

I've just downloaded a shareware program which I can't get going...the program's support said that I need to open command-line prompt window, change it's current directory to the install folder (a "bin" folder located in Applications) and then type the filename.sh... Unfortunately, I don't...

I want to make some automation in the terminal. I.e login to a remote server with username and password and run a telnet login to my dreambox and run some UNIX commands. Where shall I start, I meen what method should I use, and please if there is some simple tutorials to make some...

Apple likes to hide things from people, and perhaps for good reason. If, when one double clicked one's iPod icon, one could see all of the neat stuff revealed by command-line trickery that doesn't show up, perhaps the less technologically inclined would be tempted to delete everything and then...

This sounds like a convoluted problem, but hopefully an interesting one. I'm trying to figure out how to change users on a remote server via VNC. The VNC connection and the tunnel are working ok - except for this tiny problem of being unable to change users on the remote server. Let's call...

The problem: - I have some UNIX-commands which navigate to a certain folder and start a java-application that I'm developing. This application generates output for a while. Right now, I start this application with UNIX-commands via Automator (Execute script) and I pass the output that the...

i'm logging into my school account from home to do some work and recently i've been getting a "tcsh: using dumb terminal settings." message. this just started happening. i've read other forums and it looks like its an error in one of the terminal data files. can anyonehelp me fix this. i...

I upgraded my OS X software the other day and it put the new files under another partition for Applications. Yesterday I moved the new files to my Utilities folder and many of the apps that I frequently use have disappeared such as Terminal, Net Info Manager, etc. Can someone tell me how to...

Hi folks, I am definitely new to this group and Macintosh. If this may have been posted in the past, I apologize but I have looked and searched everywhere but could not find the answers I am looking for. May I please ask anyone in this group who may have already made a Mac OSX access a...

This probably sounds flakey, but I can't figure out how to get colors or font-weights to display in Terminal. For purely usable reasons it would be a hella useful if directories, for example, displayed differently from files when I enter "ls". I've tried setting the Terminal Type in Prefs and...

Good day! I need help. I heve macosx 10.4.2. I don't in terminal typing any russian words&simbols ????? In my network are servers (HP-UX). When by terminal i are entered on server don't see russian name of files.??

I'm from ireland and i'm trying to use the á charachter in terminal, but it doesn't seem to come out right. Any body know any way to do this? International input is set to ireland.

Hello! Is it possible to set up port forwarding (add or remove rules) on my Airport Express without having to use the Ariport Admin Utility? More importantly, I'd like a way to administrate my network settings without having to constantly restart the router. The Airport Express takes a rather...

Hi, I'm trying to use the ConvertLIT app as referenced in this thread:http://www.macosx.com/content/faq.php/q8643/Lit-Files.html I'm pretty unfamiliar with this. When I open the application, it just displays instructions. I try to follow them, but nothing seems to happen. All I want to do is...

Hello. I upgraded from Panther to Tiger. I use LDAP authentication bouncing against AD to authorize users back to the local system. In short, only local admins can get the Terminal app to launch. All Network users that log in get the message--"You are not authorized to run this application...

The previous web designer before I arrived had used the terminal to change my computer from going directly to the interent. This has made my computer unable to access our own companies wholesale website. I am using OSX10.3.9. Our network guy (outsourced) isn't familiar with Macs, but he was...

My group ran into some issues recently where the DNS behavior was somewhat unpredicatble and we were experimenting with several DNS servers. The experiments were with DHCP so there was nothing set in system preferences. One question which came up was how do I find the current DNS config in the...

Hi All, I hope somebody can offer some suggestions to what should be a straightforward situation - I can't get access to public FTP sites through any of my normal applications (including web browsers) but I can get access through the terminal. I had this problem before (and briefly fixed...

Hello, I am an Icelandic user, and I do want to be able to write icelandic-only characters in Terminal. What happens now, is that the character gets escaped in terminal (fx. \303). If I go to window settings end un-check the "Escape non-ascii characters" then when I try to write icelandic...