[X4U] OSX under the hood info please.

[Zane H. Healy]

At 10:18 PM -0500 11/5/06, Bluellama wrote:
>I am looking for recommended resources (have done the Google/search 
>option) for simple language (ie non-programmer) for the basic 
>behind-the scenes stuff in OSX. I would like to start playing in 
>terminal to modify and/or understand what is happening under  the 
>hood. Any assistance would be appreciated.

I'm not quite sure what you're looking for.  I'm a Unix Sysadmin by 
trade, but basically never tinker around under the hook on Mac OS X. 
In fact I think the extent has pretty much been to use nidump/niload 
to dump the hosts file and update it rather than going through the 
GUI (way to painful for me).

For this kind of thing on other Unix systems, I typically use Perl, 
as it's great for manipulating data.  I also use Perl on the Mac for 
a few things, such as munging data into a state that it can be input 
into an SQL database.

		Zane


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