i was using Terminal earlier and noticed that it was showing my mac as the attached screenshot.
Why is it mentioning "lizzie-pc" in the window? That is the computer name assigned to my mum's laptop, which is hibernating in the next room. 'tejaykay' is my Mac's short name.
Anybody see this before? I opened up Terminal.app and the window is completely blank. There is nothing in it whatsoever. Looks as if bash never started. The title bar simply says "Terminal — login — 80x24". I can type whatever I want in the Terminal window like it's a text document and nothing happens. If I restart the computer, this seems to fix the problem, but it seems to only be a temporary fix as the issue happens again soon after.
I'm trying to do something in terminal, and it asks for my password. I press a letter on my keyboard, and nothing appears. I am in the right window and everything, terminal just doesn't react to my typing. However, when I click enter, it says 'Sorry,try again'. So it does react to the enter key.
I'm running Symantec Backup Agent on our mac osx server. I start the agent in the terminal (./agent.be). It returns a notification that it started the service, however, it doesn't return to the prompt. Closing the terminal gives a warning that the process will be closed if the terminal is closed. Closing it does kill the process. Ctrl+c to return to the prompt also kills the process. So it's as if once the process is started in the terminal, nothing can be altered.
I am not much of a mac guy so please forgive me if this is a stupid question.
Anyone have any advice on how to handle this so the process is ALWAYS running?
I'm on a standard user account and I would really like to install icalbuddy which is a terminal app. When I install apps normally I simply have to provide a admin name and pw, but this doesn't work when it is a terminal app because it requires that the 'su' command be run.
So I thought that I could run terminal as admin through 'su - admin' and then install. But of course the admin account doesn't have access to the user folder where the installer is located. I just can't win.
the application "terminal" is not allowed "terminal is not on the approved list of applications. contact the person who set up you accout for more info
I do not have a password set on my MBP, but anytime that I have to sudo anything in Terminal it asks for my password. If I just leave it blank like at login, it says the password is incorrect. I have to do is set up a password use it in Terminal then I remove it afterwards. This is very annoying. Is there any way that I can do this without having to set the password every time?
While messing around with iPhoto and Time Machine, I ended up in the following situation. When trying to open Pictures on the sidebar of Finder, a Terminal shell pops up on the screen. Similarly, if I try to open Pictures on a Time Machine screen, I get the message "Open with Terminal" Now, I don't know how to use Terminal. How can I come back to the anterior situation where I could open Picture jut by a click?
I'm trying to change MTU settings in my router using terminal MacOs 10.5.8. eMac 1GHz.All goes well till I get to saving settings. "saveall" or "SaveAll" I get "Invalid interface name specified"It's probabably not saving settings.
my terminal isnt working on my mac that is running 10.6.5 when i start it up it shows an empty window when it should show a window that says something like this"
Last login: Sat Dec 17 14:08:02 on ttyp2 Welcome to Darwin! h460db012:~ markyoung$
but my mac upstairs with a hard drive that is broken shows text like that running 10.4.11
I tried to install Mac OS X on a thumb drive which is 8 gb. I followed the instructions on this website: [UrL]. When I tried to make it bootable in the terminal, it said No volume specified. What should I do?
but I cannot delete the # sign. When I highlight the # and press delete, nothing happens, but I can delete other letters in this window. Is there another way to enable?
for some reason terminal is no longer in the utilities folder. I can't find it with spotlight either. But now I want it back. So how can I do this. I've got 1 mac os 10.5 install disc for my iMac. and 2 extra discs called install disc. I tried installing the optional things and basics. But still no terminal. So how can I get terminal back.
I dropped my laptop and the 1 control key is the only key broken and its now impossible to use the terminal for anything anymore. Is there a way i can remap the control key to something else within terminal?
Simple request and for some reason my google-fu is failing me. How do I change the volume (drive not audio) in the Terminal app in OS X. I am using SL.
It was working fine until yesterday, and now when I open it, all I get is a blank screen, and it's stuck at "Login", and I can't use it. What happened, and how can I fix it?
I have a need to place screenshots into a specific folder. I have entered the new location for the screenshots into terminal, but i am not sure how to log out of "Terminal".
Is there a command to clear the terminal screen that works like 'cls' on Windows? I know about 'clear', but clear just moves the prompt on the top of the screen, leaving the previous output visible if I scroll up.
A friend suggested 'clear_console' (I think he's on debian) but I can't find it on OS X or MacPorts.
I want to build a redboot kernel in a wireless router, the command required from my newly acquired knowledge is insmod and modprobe.
However from the mac 10.5.8 terminal it says that the command is not found. I have installed gcc , sdk compiler support and enabled the super user as well.
I have an issue with Terminal..a few months ago I was just running some commands..somehow I deleted everything from terminal, and wasn't able to run any more commands. Somehow, I got the functionality back by my address (whatever it's called..dunno the lingo), has changed.
here's what I see now:
Last login: Thu Dec 9 18:22:30 on ttys000 new-host-2:~ tylerclifford$ defaults write com.apple.Safari
It says new-host-2: now, instead of just saying my name (which is what it did before).
I have connected to my server through terminal and made my way to the administrator/videos directory where I want to upload the rared directory to so I type put directory name.rar and press enter and I get the following message usage: put local-file [remote-file]