Enable the root user in macOS Big Sur and earlier macOS versions
Here is how you enable the root user in macOS Big Sur and ealier macOS versions, the macOS root user is disabled by default. As an admin user launch System Preferences from the Apple Menu and go to the User and Groups pane, you will need to authenticate first by clicking on the padlock icon down the bottom left, then click on Login Options to see…
Read MoreHow to make your SSH Terminal shell sessions last longer on macOS
If you find that your SSH shell sessions to remote computers are timing out too quickly with the error “Write failed: Broken pipe”, you can make a simple configuration to keep these sessions going as long as you have your terminal shell window running: Move into your SSH settings folder cd ~/.ssh Create a local…
Read MoreHow to Find & Delete Files in Directory by Modification Date in Linux
How to find and delete files in a Linux directory based on when the file had been modified from a certain amount of days ago – this can be useful for dealing with directories with copious amounts of files like email boxes and log folders. First to see the files modified or created based on…
Read MoreDifference between a Symbolic Link and a Finder Alias in macOS
A Symbolic or Soft Link is a traditional Unix link to an original file or directory which can reside anywhere on the filing system, the linked file when opened as a file or directory has the same contents as the original and if you edit the linked file or add content to the linked directory…
Read MoreInstall Git on macOS Big Sur and earlier with Homebrew or Packaged File
You can install Git on macOS Big Sur, Catalina, Mojave, Sierra, or an older Mac OSX version by a couple of options, one is to use Homebrew to install Git by installing Homebrew first and then issuing: brew install git You can also download install a easy to install package file getting the latest git…
Read MoreRemotely connect to Amazon S3 Bucket from the macOS command line
Connecting your macOS to AmazonS3 storage buckets. This process requires a couple of Unix tools installed, s3cmd and gpg (optional), s3cmd is the command line tool used to connect to Amazon S3 and gpg is an optional secure tool allowing data transfer to be encrypted over HTTPS between you and Amazon. This guide uses Homebrew…
Read MoreSet up Virtual Hosts on macOS Big Sur 11 in Apache
Setting up Virtual Hosts in Apache on on macOS Big Sur is straight forward after you have your local Web Development environment up and running – get your web development up and running first including Apache, PHP and MySQL on macOS following this macOS Big Sur Apache/PHP/MySQL guide here if required. This guide will also…
Read MoreInstalling & Configuring Apache on macOS using Homebrew
Eventhough Apache ships with macOS, a better maintained version would be coming from Homebrew, also Apple is making noises about not supporting legacy software like PHP so in the future this may be more of a compulsory option. First thing to do would be to remove the builtin Apache version of which in macOS Big…
Read MoreInstalling MariaDB Database Server on macOS
MariaDB is an alternative to MySQL database which is more performant with a full open license, you can install it easily on macOS via Homebrew. The first step is to install Homebrew on your computer and possibly to remove any older MySQL database server versions. Once Homebrew is installed, on the command line: brew install…
Read MoreRemove MySQL database server from macOS or OSX via the command line
To remove an instance of MySQL Database Server from your macOS or OSX installation you need to delete a number of files via the command line, but first ensure that you have database dumps of your databases and that then the database server is not running. Back Up any needed MySQL databases Launch the command…
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