05-21-2009
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Originally Posted by
Kcahintosh19
Hi, I'm new here, but I have a quick small question. I'm sorry if it sounds stupid, but I'm new to the UNIX world after using VMS (or Windows) my entire life. I my Mac runs Leopard, and I was wondering;
My friend me through Mac's "Terminal" you can create and program your own applications by just using the UNIX codes and just in Terminal. Is this true? If it is not, what kind of program or application would I need to make any kind of application?
Thanks in advance.
A little advice from someone who owned two OS X-capable Macs and used all the powerful extras he could on both:
OS X Developer Tools, free from Apple (you just have to sign up to their Developer Community, also free) enhances what Terminal can do in terms of compiling and testing programs created with its own resident utilities. Apple's X11 extends those bounds considerably more. If you bought your Mac new or refurb from an authorized Apple reseller, CDs with those packages on them should have come with it. If not, and your Mac happens to burn CDs/DVDs (most do nowadays), then you can download the necessary disk images direct from Apple. Just Google for Developer Tools for Leopard and Mac OS X X11 for Leopard, and look for links where the URLs happen to have either "www.apple.com" or "developer.apple.com" at the beginning.
Twelve years of Mac home use comes in handy sometimes.
BZT
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reportcrash
ReportCrash(8) BSD System Manager's Manual ReportCrash(8)
NAME
ReportCrash -- Generates crash reports
SYNOPSIS
ReportCrash
DESCRIPTION
ReportCrash analyzes crashing processes and saves a crash report to disk. A crash report contains information that can help a developer
diagnose the cause of a crash. ReportCrash also records the identity of the crashing process and the location of the saved crash report in
the system.log and the ASL log database.
ReportCrash is invoked automatically by launchd when a crash is detected. For applications and other processes running in the per-user
launchd context, ReportCrash runs as a LaunchAgent and saves crash reports in the user's ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/ directory. For
daemons, other processes running in the system launchd context and other privileged processes, ReportCrash runs as a LaunchDaemon and saves
crash reports in the system's /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports directory where they are only readable by admin users. If there are too many
crash reports saved for a particular process, older reports will automatically be removed in order to conserve disk space.
launchtl can be used to disable and re-enable crash reporting. To disable crash reporting:
launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.ReportCrash.plist
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.ReportCrash.Root.plist
To re-enable crash reporting:
launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.ReportCrash.plist
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.ReportCrash.Root.plist
For application crashes (but not background process crashes) ReportCrash will display a dialog notifying the user that the application unex-
pectedly quit and offering to reopen the application or send the report to Apple. For developers, the behavior of this dialog can be
adjusted using /Developer/Applications/Utilities/CrashReporterPrefs.app which is installed as part of the developer tools.
Crash reports which are sent to Apple are submitted anonymously by the SubmitDiagInfo process. The reports are used by Apple to improve its
products. Users who need support should use http://www.apple.com/support or other authorized support channels. Developers who are ADC mem-
bers should report bugs using http://bugreporter.apple.com in order to allow for two way communication between Apple and the bug reporter.
More information about interpreting the contents of crash reports can be found in Technote 2123: http://developer.apple.com/tech-
notes/tn2004/tn2123.html
SEE ALSO
launchd(8), launchd.plist(8), launchctl(8), spindump(8), SubmitDiagInfo(8)
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