Posted on in System Administration
Backing up systems efficiently is crucial for data integrity and space
management. Using hard links with rsync is a common strategy to conserve disk
space. However, macOS can sometimes present challenges with hard links,
especially when dealing with external drives. This article revisits the issue of
hard links not working …
Posted on in System Administration
SSH should feel boring. You type ssh hostname, the server asks for whatever
authentication it needs, and you get a shell. When it pauses for 30, 60, or 120
seconds before anything useful happens, the delay is usually not random. It is
almost always name resolution, address-family selection, routing, or …
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There was a time when adding a Mac OS X user from the command line meant talking
directly to NetInfo with nicl, copying a user template with ditto, and
hoping you did not fat-finger a UID. That was useful knowledge in 2007. It is
also very much not how I …
