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Google search customizing your ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc there should be ways so that your user environment auto executes things you want to with those configurations.

It has been a while...

Launchd is a lot like cron, but more. You can Google for an app called Lingon, which will help you generate launchd items. You would just need to make a system deamon that runs your command and...

If you package up an installer (PKG file) with the script, the loginwindow.plist file enabling the logout hook you can install it and then on shutdown the script will run.

The script I posted...

Google Mac Ports and Fink, these along with the developer tool's installed will allow you to install many different command line tools and binaries.

Do you want it to run 1) globally at every boot regardless of any users logging in or not, 2) only when a user logs in, or 3) only when specific users log in?

The answer is launchd and it is quite...

You mean this thread?

Script/Command question - The macosxhints Forums (http://hintsforums.macworld.com/showthread.php?t=120654&highlight=single+user+mode)

For one, your method will not work...

By default OS X 10.6 installer does not format the HD, instead it always does an overlay of the OS unless you pop open disk utility first and erase the hard drive.

Ditto will copy directory structures while cp will copy files. However, this can be easily remedied by simply installing OS X 10.6 again. You can do a non destructive overlay of the OS.

You...

I thought it allowed to you edit keyboard short cuts and add custom menu items, as well as launch apps?

I can't say I am all that familiar with it, as I have only tinkered with it.

You may need to install the developer tools and x11 which are optional installs off the OS X Installer DVD.

Look at a free third party app called quick silver

most applications are actually self contained folders, that have all the contents of the app itself needed to run.

You may need to cp -R or ditto to copy all the contents from the command line. ...

Are you running any sort of ACLs or anything that could overwrite access? Also, your user account you are using to map this share to the BSD box, what permissions does it have?

Reset your SMU, then boot off the OS installer DVD and wipe and reload the Mac, unless there is precious data on there you cannot lose.

Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller...

Look at package creation software and package up your app with the right tools so all needed information is built into the package. Google search the following products

PackageMaker (from Apple)...

I think you posted this on the Macworld forums, as I remember reading this.

in case anyone else is reading this I will just link the forum post as Hal Itosis wrote a pretty nice script that does...

You can enable it in System Preferences with mouse gestures. Also, if you hold ctrl + click it right clicks. You can even set up right click on the track pad.

If you want to mount and read/write to NTFS you need to use third party file system add ons. Otherwise you will only be able to read only. MacFUSE is one out there that gets good reviews.

macfuse...

awesome guys I will try this tomorrow when I get back to work, thanks for the help.

Looks like anything involved with fonts in every directory. Here is just a snip of the output:


bash-3.2$ find -x -E /* -iname "*arial*" -type f -print
/Applications/Microsoft Office...

That does seem to work....maybe I was just on the wrong track trying to use a regular expression?

Thanks for that

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Seems it also finds a ton of stuff I don't want or that exactly...

So, I need to find the instances of a certain font and remove it....so far in my testing I am using the find command with regex to find a font I want to pull out. However, I seem to be slightly...

boot one in FW target disk mode. Go to System Preferences, start up disk, and click on target disk mode. This will cause one Mac to boot into FW Target Disk mode, which will then allow it to be...

you need just the file names into a spread sheet?

How exactly are you running the script? Also, could you post the whole script so I could take a look at it?