[X4U] OSX under the hood info please.

[Bluellama]

I guess I am one of those weird individuals that likes to know a  
little about how the items I am using works. I was pretty comfortable  
with the Mac OS's prior to OSX, now I have been using it for a few  
years now and feel a need to explore and look. I love the GUI, I  
merely wish to peek behind the curtain and somewhat understand what  
is going on.

I have just put together a nice little iMac for just that reason, so  
if I do something boneheaded (very likely) it won't be a major  
disaster and cause any downtime on the main Mac.

regards,
Mark


On Nov 6, 2006, at 12:40 AM, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> 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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