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I have the following problem. I am on 10.3.2. I made for myself an ordinary user account to work in (called "loek"), so that I don't need to work all the time with admin privs. Under 10.2 I could just change all account settings (having been prompted for my admin password) but under Panther...

My Installed Updates tab shows no list of updates, nor can I find a "Software Updates.log" file anywhere. I checked the rights of the /Library/Logs directory and they seem to be correct root:admin ug+rwx o+rx Does anybody have any idea on how I could have the installed software updates log file...

Hi, When I portscan my computer from the Shields Up website, I receive a "failure" message showing I have only "closed" ports 0 and 1 and not "stealth". All my other ports are fine ("stealth"). It seems impossible to overcome this by adding rules in ipfw to close ports 0 and 1, this doesn´t...

I have an output of a set of files named in alphabetic style, like filename.0aa, filename.0ab....filename0.zz and I want to rename these files into numeric style, like filename.001, filename.002 etc. This should be possible with a simple shell script. But I don't succeed. UNIX gurus please help...

I have the following startup problems with ipfw. I noticed that the firewall.conf rule set is not performed totally until the end during system startup. It hangs somewhere in the middle and the last rules are not performed. When I then manually start ipfw again (with sudo /sbin/ipfw -f flush...

If I want to burn a CD in OS X it says me the disk has 610 MB available (after inserting the disk and preparing it for burning). If I want to burn the same CD with Toast in OS 9, I have 654 MB available! I don't understand this difference. Does anybody else also have this problem? What should I...

Hello all, Maybe some of you have this same problem. I always use SSH as ordinary user to login as root user to work in the Terminal on root level. Since the 10.1.1 upgrade I always get a "bus error" while exiting as root user in the Terminal. I run OpenSSH_2.9.9p2, OpenSSL 0x0090602f. The...