Using perl of coarse. It took me a second to get this to work; but its pretty easy:
perl -pi.bak -e ‘s/string1/string2/g’
Month: December 2007
Zen with Xen + a terrible perl program
I know I am very late to the Xen party. I try to stay on top of the life changing software, but there have just been so many new things out there over the past two years or so. I tried running a Xen kernel a while back under fedora core 6, but there were serious problems with xen and the ivtv kernel module driving my pvr500. I was using that for my mythtv backend, which the wife had gotten used to. Guess which had to go. FF >> 2007. I am priming my hardware for a complete replacement, and have already ebayed the tuner card. I figured what the heck; I have a free afternoon. Why not install a xen kernel, and experiment? Good times. Between xen and perl I blew the weekend. I started to write a screen scraper for surfthechannel.com but I got bored. Here is what I have so far….
Continue reading Zen with Xen + a terrible perl programHave spotlight reindex any volume
Its rare, but sometimes spotlight gets a little dumb. It will start missing things in /Applications or people in your address book. If this happens to you then you can have it reindex the volume. Just run mdutil -E / (where / is the volume you want to reindex) as root.
If you are having DNS issues w/ OS X. Look into scutil.
We had been having some problems w/ dns for OS 10.4 users. After running lookupd -flushcache didn’t work, and host was returning the correct values I got confused. Google to the rescue once again. I fixed it with scutil. If I came from BSD maybe I would have already known about it. Another item of interest is dscl. Ryan says: as of 10.5 netinfo is no longer in use. Instead I have to use “local directory”. I should also install the server admin tools.