I am a windows bod most of the time but now there are macs in the mix and I need to support all the blocked apps our company deems unfit to run on their system. In Windows I used a small app I wrote that runs in the background and just kills any window containing a specified title. Could someone please help with a bit of script that would do the same in OS X?
Can't make a script for you, but maybe it would be helpful to includekillall in your search. "The killall utility kills processes selected by name..."
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I run the server.go file using "iTerm2" software from my macbook pro. But as the server's availability depends upon that "iTerm2" running or not it stops working as soon as my macbook pro goes in sleep mode or the iTerm2 software is interrupted in any way. I need my GoLang Server to run 24x7. What do I do? I tried searching on google and since my English is not good I can not find the right answer.
I have been trying to find a solution for this problem from weeks now.
Please help.
Use tmux or screen put the session run in the background.
Or just run your command &; disown
Otherwise, your computer shutting down or getting into sleep will both interrupt or pause the background process, so in real world 24x7, you need a cloud service unless keeping your computer running 24x7.
I asked this question over on the Apple Communities and got a grand total of ZERO responses. You guys seem a whole lot smarter, so thought I would ask here to see what you think.
An error has started occuring when I attempt to trigger an Applescript via an external process. The console error is as follows:
12/09/2012 11:01:39.205 osascript[269]: Scripting addition loading restricted to system domains because this process has mixed credentials (issetugid=0 r/e uid=501/0 gid=20/20)
When I run the script locally on the Mac(Mini - Mountain Lion 10.8.1) it works perfectly.
What is happening is as follows.
I have a MacMini as a music server in a home automation environment powered by a Crestron processor. The MacMini is connected to two zones, one via the Optical output and another to a DAC from one of the USB ports. When I selected "Listen to iTunes" in one of the two zones the controller sends a command via UDP to a program running on the MacMini which triggers the scripts to change to the appropriate audio out.
All was working well until yesterday when all of a sudden the program triggering the script, whilst reporting that it has executed the correct script correctly, isn't switching the output and the above message is appearing on the console.
I have read what I can on here and as such have reset the PRAM and SMC (all three dongs...) and deleted the script triggering program, run Clean My Mac and rebooted, all to no avail.
Can anyone help me with this, it has to be something simple given that it was working...surely? I haven't run an update or changed anything else that I can think of.....
Any and all thoughts and input would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Marc
From the error it seems that you have an add-on to applescript called a "Scripting addition" installed, and that's causing the error. Most likely you do not need this add-on to perform your applescript code. So I would remove all scripting additions from my system and see if the applescript still works.
Search your system for scripting additions... ~/Library/ScriptingAdditions and /Library/ScriptingAdditions.
If you do need to do something that the scripting addition is doing for you, then there's probably other ways to perform the same task without the add-on.
Little snitch is an application i installed and does not show up in startup items in system preferences, however the application always starts up whenever the system starts, how does it do this, is there some other place where applications can register themselves so they launch on startup.
EDIT: BELONGS ON SUPERUSER.
Little Snitch runs at a much lower level than normal applications; it is a Kernel extension (kext) which integrates with the Mac OS kernel.
This is why you don't see it appear as a 'normal' registered program in your startup items list, because it's not one of those.
Somebody has put a list of files installed by Little Snitch here (link is a couple of years old)
A 'Daemon' or a 'Launch Agent' can do that.
Have a look in /Library/LaunchAgent or /Library/LaunchDaemon
There will be quite a few processes that launch without being in the Startup Items section of System Preferences.
I need to open an url from my application, on both linux and windows and i want to avoid replacing an existing page on an open browser.
How do i call for it to open?
I know i can use
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("http://mysite.com");
which should also work under linux, but this will replace any page shown on an already open browser window.
i found this article ( thx to Nissan Fan):
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("http://mysite.com");
but this only works for windows and i need a solution that will work on both systems.
I think this is what you want:
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start ("xdg-open http://mysite.com");
This will only work on linux, but should work for all linux desktops. Like grombeestje said, you should probably implement it separately for Windows and linux.
i would suggest to check on what OS the app is running, and then implement it for each OS separately.
After searching through the Banshee source code I see that they use Gnome.Url.Show() (In gnome-sharp) to open the users default browser.
If that isn't possible for whatever reason, a couple of other ideas come to mind.
If the user is running Gnome there should be a program called "gnome-open" that should do the trick.
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("gnome-open http://mysite.com");
And if that doesn't work I know that (at least) all Debian-based systems come with a script called sensible-browser.
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("sensible-browser http://mysite.com");
I have a console application (written in VB6 ) which is behaving strangely on my machine. I kick it off from the command line and what should be a two minute job drops straight back to the prompt - if I run this on another machine the executable will sit and wait until the job finishes before returning control back to the prompt. If I check process explorer I can see that the executable is running as a background process and other than this strange background-ness is running as expected.
Any thoughts on why this could be happening? (Running on 32-bit Windows XP Pro SP3.)
It's totally unclear whether this is an application you wrote and have the source code for. If that's the case, you need to get in and start debugging. At the least, use OutputDebugString to send information about what's going on to any number of potential viewers. Taking that a step further, consider rewiring the app using the Console module I wrote, along with vbAdvance to recompile. This combination will allow you the full power of the VB6 IDE to debug within. No more guessing about what's going on.
Then again, if it's not your app, I'm not sure what VB6 has to do with it and wish you the best of luck trying to figure out what's up.
It sounds to me as though the app isn't being recognised as a console app on one of your machines. Console apps weren't officially supported in VB6, although there are some well-known hacks for creating them (particularly the free add-in vbAdvance). Possibly your console app is a bit unreliable? If Windows thinks your app is a GUI rather than a console app, it won't wait for it to finish.
As a pragmatic workaround: try launching with start /wait rather than just using the exename. That forces the command prompt to wait for the program to finish, whether it's a GUI app or a console app.
Sounds like an error is occurring that is being 'swallowed' by the application. Do you have the source code?
Errors in VB6 apps are often due to some COM component not installed and/or registered.
Download SysInternals Process Monitor and this will show up accesses to ProgIDs that fail (uninstalled/unregistered COM components).
Check out: Process Monitor - Hands-On Labs and Examples.
Have you checked permissions? Is the application accessing any network based resources?