How can I direct messages from mac console.app to a log file?
I'm trying to complete a bash script to capture if an external webcam is active in a video conference session. Some users will switch the camera to the built-in MAC camera. When this happens I want to trigger a set of events.
Things tried: reviewed the console.app to look for patterns on when the switch occurs in a user test & discovered messages indicating when the facetime camera changes state. I found this
I thought I could simply grep these message from the console.app but it seems to be easier said than done. I thought i could find the msgs in one of the console report files but When I look at the various reports on the console, i'm not finding a report that contains the messages above. How can I direct messages from console.app to a log file versus manually copying and pasting the info from the console?or point me to a direction? Am I missing something?
Hi All,
I have an expression as follows:-
a=`expr ${i} + ${j}` >> $log_file 2>&1
Here, if any of the values i or j or both happens to be empty then the "expr" returns error as
"expr: 0402-050 Syntax error." My problem is I am not able to re-direct this error to the log file. Its is getting... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have a script to compare 2 files.
file1=$1
file2=$2
num_of_records_file1=`awk ' END { print NR } ' $file1`
num_of_records_file2=`awk ' END { print NR } ' $file2`
i=1
while
do
sed -n "$i"p $file1 > file1_temp
sed -n "$i"p $file2 > file2_temp
diff file1_temp... (5 Replies)
Hi there,
We have 2 apps on our customers machines that can both open files with the same file extension. Is there any way via shell commands to set which application should be the default?
Essentially, I'm hoping to replicate Get Info > Open With > Change All using a shell script, but I just... (0 Replies)
Hello, currently we are executing a .sh from terminal.
The current .sh looks like this:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
/Users/user/my.app/Contents/MacOS/my &
--
Now, we also need to run a third line in the .sh - It's a command line application that I need to run when I execute the above .sh... (0 Replies)
#!/bin/ksh -x
cd /tmp/tj
ftp -n servername.com << DONE
user username password
as
put test.log
quit
close
DONE
echo "testing..."
sh -x scriptname, and it shows all, but username, as, put, quit, close, DONE.
how can i see those ? (1 Reply)
Hi guys,
been scratching round the forums and my mountain of resources.
Maybe I havn't read deep enough
My question is not how sed edits a stream and outputs it to a file, rather something like this below:
I have a .txt with some text in it :rolleyes:
abc:123:xyz
123:abc:987... (7 Replies)
What is the best practice to allow a 3rd party health monitoring app to read the messages file. Since messages is a system file and is owned by root the app cannot read the file. I don't want to run the app as root so how should I allow the app to read the file. The read function is actually built... (2 Replies)
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pam_console
pam_console(8) System Administrator's Manual pam_console(8)NAME
pam_console - control permissions for users at the system console
SYNOPSIS
session optional /lib/security/pam_console.so
auth required /lib/security/pam_console.so
DESCRIPTION
pam_console.so is designed to give users at the physical console (virtual terminals and local xdm-managed X sessions by default, but that
is configurable) capabilities that they would not otherwise have, and to take those capabilities away when the are no longer logged in at
the console. It provides two main kinds of capabilities: file permissions and authentication.
When a user logs in at the console and no other user is currently logged in at the console, pam_console.so will change permissions and own-
ership of files as described in the file /etc/security/console.perms. That user may then log in on other terminals that are considered
part of the console, and as long as the user is still logged in at any one of those terminals, that user will own those devices. When the
user logs out of the last terminal, the console may be taken by the next user to log in. Other users who have logged in at the console
during the time that the first user was logged in will not be given ownership of the devices unless they log in on one of the terminals;
having done so on any one terminal, the next user will own those devices until he or she has logged out of every terminal that is part of
the physical console. Then the race can start for the next user. In practice, this is not a problem; the physical console is not gener-
ally in use by many people at the same time, and pam_console.so just tries to do the right thing in weird cases.
ARGUMENTS
debug turns on debugging
allow_nonroot_tty
gain console locks and change permissions even if the TTY's owner is not root.
permsfile=filename
tells pam_console.so to get its permissions database from a different file than /etc/security/console.perms
fstab=filename
tells pam_console.so to read the table of configured filesystems from a file other than /etc/fstab when scanning permsfile. This
file is used to map directories to device names.
FILES
/var/run/console.lock
/var/run/console/
/etc/security/console.apps
/etc/security/console.perms
SEE ALSO console.perms(5)console.apps(5)
/usr/doc/pam*/html/index.html pam_console_apply(8)
/usr/doc/pam*/html/index.html
BUGS
Let's hope not, but if you find any, please report them via the "Bug Track" link at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/
AUTHOR
Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@redhat.com>
Red Hat 2000/7/11 pam_console(8)