Occasionally, you’ll want to be sure you are getting fresh DNS information during development or working on servers with hostnames. This has changed in the Leopard version of Mac OS X. The following command will now flush your DNS cache on Mac OS X Leopard: dscacheutil -flushcache
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If you have previously disabled the Mac OS X Spotlight feature and you now find that you would like to turn it on again, following these steps to do so. Launch Terminal and type the following command: sudo nano /etc/hostconfig Find the following entry in the hostconfig file: SPOTLIGHT=-NO- Change SPOTLIGHT=-NO- to SPOTLIGHT=-YES- Save /etc/hostconfig [...]
One of the primary features of the Mac OS X operating system is their search feature called Spotlight. Many Mac OS X users depend on this great feature but others don’t find it necessary. For those of you who don’t find it necessary, it can improve the performance of your Mac OS X system if [...]
A local DNS host file can be very useful when working in a development environment. You can have a development environment and a production environment and simply point the host to the development environment on your machine while all of the other users are directed to the production environment. This allows you to work on [...]
If you are new to Mac OS X, you may need to know how to edit your PATH. The good news is that this is an easy task on Mac OS X. The recommended way is by editing your .bash_profile file. This file is read and the commands in it executed by Bash every time [...]