@WLS-ITGuy give this a try, you may need to go back more than a year though.

@scottalanmiller Yep, I just wanted to share the configuration I use as my daily driver because it makes working in the terminal that much more efficient. The OP mentioned wanting something that was a bit slicker and more powerful, and I think in addition to your choice of terminal, your choice of shell and other tools contributes to having a better experience. I prefer FISH for my shell, and tmux is my terminal multiplexor of choice. ZSH is another great alternative shell as well.

@DustinB3403 said in Tar gzip file compression calculation without decompressing the file: @Pete-S So the simplest way I can think to explain this would be like this. You have a network share which is relatively organized You create a compressed tarball of any folder on that share and then move that tarball to offsite storage. How would I realistically get a hash of that folder pre and post tar and compression and have it make sense? They aren't the same thing, even if they contain the same things. @Pete-S said in Tar gzip file compression calculation without decompressing the file: Is it safe to assume that the gzip file is correct when it is created? This is what I'm looking to verify I'm assuming that files are static during backup. If you first of all run md5deep on all files in the folder, you'll create a textfile that contains md5 (or sha256 or what you want) signatures on every file in the folder. Place it into the folder so it ends up inside the backup and you'll always have the ability to verify any uncompressed individual file. If you really want to verify your tar.gz file after it's created I think you have to decompress the files to a temporary folder, run md5deep on the files to compare them with the original file. What you really are testing is that the backup-compress-decompress-restore operation is lossless on every file. It should be by design, but if there is an unlikely bug somewhere it's technically possible that it might not be. If you use the gzip compression with tar, gzip has a CRC-32 checksum inside that can be used to verify the integrity of the gzip file. Or to be even more certain you can create an md5 signature of the entire gzip archive with md5sum or md5deep. Then you can always verify that the archive has not been corrupted. If you ever need to restore the files you can verify the integrity of the restored files with the md5 you created on the original files, before you did the backup.

@Pete-S said in HFSPlus Read Write access on Fedora: Why not Paragon drivers on Windows instead? Virtualize and pass through to the VM. Because I am operating this from fedora to sync the data to cloud. Plus I need my work laptop portable.

No dice just yet, finishing a beer and headed home. Going to see if this can get resolved tomorrow.

@scottalanmiller said in Best SIP VoIP Softphone for macOS: Got a couple of users on macOS that would like to set up a softphone on their desktops. In theory Linphone, Zoiper, X-Lite make macOS versions. Anyone have a reason to pick one or the other or have another option on macOS? I use Telephone on my laptop and like it. Its pretty sparse, but it works well and is efficient.

This is a good starter video: Youtube Video

I've added this to a larger script that I use, but if you only wanted to automate the naming process the above would work for you. Else just remove the header #!/bin/sh and add the reset to any setup scripts that you have to automate this portion of the setup.

Another good resource that lists a bunch of useful tools for macOS management. https://github.com/smashism/awesome-macadmin-tools

@shortstack said in Saltstack and Brew Casks: @DustinB3403 i am also wondering what the workaround for this issue is, re: salt minion executing brew installs. did you ever figure out a clean way to get brew working, maybe runas a different user? I haven't had the chance to get back into this, other more pressing issues so I just went on with my day. Sorry

It is likely obvious, but as I know that some people are searching for this information, creating administrative users in this way can be done very easily from remote command lines such as ScreenConnect, ConnectWise, MeshCentral, and so forth.

Have never looked at that.

Fixed a small typo.

@RojoLoco said in OSX Mojave - System Storage - Time Machine Disabled: @DustinB3403 said in OSX Mojave - System Storage - Time Machine Disabled: That seems unnecessary as this shouldn't be so difficult, nor should it ever occur. ...because everything apple does is perfect and never, ever malfunctions in any way, right? Yeah. . . no I get the stance. What makes no sense is there is no way for me to find where this bulk is coming from.

@LilAng said in Copy / Paste from Excel on Mac to Outlook Web Access Creates Image Rather than Table: In Excel, use File > Save as web page, then attach the web page to your email message? Yeah, we found that process. That's a pretty huge "fail" process.

@DustinB3403 said in OSX Power Saving Settings: @black3dynamite said in OSX Power Saving Settings: Does that also prevent it from sleeping when the lid is closed? The lid closed is powernap

So with further testing, a restart is required if the user is using their system, otherwise they'll continue to get the notifications.

@dbeato said in lpadmin - remove printer with a space in the name: @DustinB3403 said in lpadmin - remove printer with a space in the name: Nevermind! lpadmin adds spaces as underscores! So with lpadmin -p I was able to find the list of printers. lpadmin -p Accounting_Printer And with lpadmin -x Accounting_Printer was able to remove the printer! Removed Accounting_Printer Good to know for central administration of Apple devices. What are you using right now? ARD and Unix cli

@wrx7m said in OSX 10.14.X Bug - Roaming AD Accounts unable to login when Off Network: @DustinB3403 said in OSX 10.14.X Bug - Roaming AD Accounts unable to login when Off Network: My co-worker thinks he may have a workaround, which involves backing up the user profile, deleting the existing one and restoring the files for the user. We're testing this currently to see if this actually "sticks". Did it work? Waiting to hear back

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Just used this again today, as another script I have had this attribute. Not sure when the attribute was written to the script though. But it's working now. This is the full error. /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Operation not permitted

@scottalanmiller said in OSX Unix Using Brew to install software remotely: @DustinB3403 said in OSX Unix Using Brew to install software remotely: So I can just unpack the dmg file, and have an Copy job, copy the application to the Applications folder for any user. As my admin user account. All via Apple Remote Desktop. This works without issue. What I am trying to do is avoid having to locally download the app at all, unpack it and then have a Copy job to run. I'd like to streamline the process. That's what the script is doing already. Making your own "sudo friendly" script for your install might make sense. The issue is there is no way AFAIK without adding my local admin account to this group. Which is more work than it may be worth since the existing solution works but is annoying.

@DustinB3403 said in Some New Macs Risk Bricking from Third Party Repairs: @dafyre said in Some New Macs Risk Bricking from Third Party Repairs: @Dashrender said in Some New Macs Risk Bricking from Third Party Repairs: @DustinB3403 said in Some New Macs Risk Bricking from Third Party Repairs: Yeah I kind of have an issue with this. . . It's my device, if I want Joe from the mall kiosk to replace whatever in my device, that is my right to do, and I'd be the responsible person who risk the device being broken further or compromised with non-oem parts. On the other side of the conversation I understand Apple's reasoning for this and it's sounds like they simply want users to use OEM only parts, but they use this guise of "for security". Which also kind of irks me. . . Why do you call it a guise? If Apple doesn't make the interconnect APIs available, who knows what those knockoff people are making. I'm back to the point where the device should likely just hit you with a warning every 24 hours that you might have compromised shit installed - but I'm guessing that Scott and others will be against that level of frequency. I'm against a one time notice of there being a perceived security issue in the device. I'm not against a notification -- but every 24 hours seems excessive. Maybe a 30 second notification every reboot -- something that doesn't require any action other than waiting the 30 seconds. But this is just an "you may have been" there is no proof that something has been compromised. Just the possibility because a non approved person or company has worked on property you own. I think any notification that would force you to wait, period would be overly intrusive. Right, you MAY have been compromised with Apple's own stuff, too. But they would "conveniently" not show a warning. Therefore the warning would have nothing to do with risk, and everything to do with FUD.

You might look at the tools that Apple is pushing (and thus supporting). I don't know if Munki will fit your requirements, but it may. Here is a list of several projects for managing macOS: https://simplemdm.com/2018/07/19/popular-open-source-tools-for-mac-admins/. NoMAD is pretty cool if you're in a Windows-centric environment.

@marcinozga said in Find the character break - sh script: @DustinB3403 you need to source .bash_profile after changing it, so bash picks up modified file. Either source ~/.bash_profile or . ~/.bash_profile Thanks for that, I was actually sorting out that bit as you posted. Short of setting up a few printers via the script I'm back in working order.

Now I'm getting Unexpected end of File FML. . . what changed!