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  What Did I Do in Terminal? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2015-10-01 00:38 -0400
    Re: What Did I Do in Terminal? David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> - 2015-10-01 00:01 -0500
    Re: What Did I Do in Terminal? mcarels@xs4all.nl (Maarten Carels) - 2015-10-01 10:16 +0200
      Re: What Did I Do in Terminal? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2015-10-01 23:25 -0400
        Re: What Did I Do in Terminal? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-02 03:36 +0000
        Re: What Did I Do in Terminal? FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> - 2015-10-01 23:41 -0400
          Re: What Did I Do in Terminal? billy@MIX.COM - 2015-10-04 10:20 +0000
            Re: What Did I Do in Terminal? android <here@there.was> - 2015-10-04 12:43 +0200
            Re: What Did I Do in Terminal? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-04 10:52 -0400
            Re: What Did I Do in Terminal? FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> - 2015-10-04 15:42 -0400
        Re: What Did I Do in Terminal? Siri Cruz <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2015-10-04 03:49 -0700
          Re: What Did I Do in Terminal? android <here@there.was> - 2015-10-04 12:57 +0200

#81232 — What Did I Do in Terminal?

Some time back -- maybe as much as a year ago -- I read about a
terminal command that would make my Mac do something better. I'm fuzzy
on what it was, and I erred in not making a note of the terminal
command that I entered. I don't see that the system is any better or
worse, but when I start or restart or shutdown a passel of terminal
commands scroll by on the display, far too fast to read. Maybe someone
else has done this and knows what I'm talking about?

TIA!

-- 
I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that
you will say in your entire life.

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#81233

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On Thursday, 01 October 2015 00:38 -0400, 
 in article <011020150038031454%star@sky.net>, 
 Davoud <star@sky.net> wrote:

> Some time back -- maybe as much as a year ago -- I read about a 
> terminal command that would make my Mac do something better. I'm 
> fuzzy on what it was, and I erred in not making a note of the 
> terminal command that I entered. I don't see that the system is any 
> better or worse, but when I start or restart or shutdown a passel of 
> terminal commands scroll by on the display, far too fast to read. 
> Maybe someone else has done this and knows what I'm talking about?

Judging from your description, whatever you did turned on verbose boot 
by default.  Sorry, I don't know the command line incantation to turn 
it off, but you can do it using Onyx, under Parameters/Login/Startup 
mode.  <http://www.titanium.free.fr/onyx.html>

-- 
David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com>
 Be kind to animals; kiss a shark.

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#81257

Davoud <star@sky.net> wrote:

> Some time back -- maybe as much as a year ago -- I read about a
> terminal command that would make my Mac do something better. I'm fuzzy
> on what it was, and I erred in not making a note of the terminal
> command that I entered. I don't see that the system is any better or
> worse, but when I start or restart or shutdown a passel of terminal
> commands scroll by on the display, far too fast to read. Maybe someone
> else has done this and knows what I'm talking about?
Is there a way to make verbose mode happen by default?
Terminal:

sudo nvram boot-args="-v"

Enter your admin password and you are set.
If you want to go back to normal boot, type:

sudo nvram boot-args=""

Hope this helps

--maarten

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#81367

Maarten Carels:
> Enter your admin password and you are set.
> If you want to go back to normal boot, type:
> 
> sudo nvram boot-args=""
> 
> Hope this helps

It helped. It either undid what I did, or it hid what I did. What was I
thinking!? Of what use to me is Unix gobbledygook scrolling past too
fast to read it?

-- 
I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that
you will say in your entire life.

usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm

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#81369

On 2015-10-02, Davoud <star@sky.net> wrote:
> Maarten Carels:
>> Enter your admin password and you are set.
>> If you want to go back to normal boot, type:
>> 
>> sudo nvram boot-args=""
>> 
>> Hope this helps
>
> It helped. It either undid what I did, or it hid what I did. What was I
> thinking!? Of what use to me is Unix gobbledygook scrolling past too
> fast to read it?

You're asking us?? You're the one who enabled it... 

-- 
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I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

JR

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#81370

On 2015-10-01 23:25:49 -0400, Davoud <star@sky.net> said:

> Maarten Carels:
>> Enter your admin password and you are set.
>> If you want to go back to normal boot, type:
>> 
>> sudo nvram boot-args=""
>> 
>> Hope this helps
> 
> It helped. It either undid what I did, or it hid what I did. What was I
> thinking!? Of what use to me is Unix gobbledygook scrolling past too
> fast to read it?

Better to look at a grey screen, with a big grey apple... and hope that 
your machine is doing something, besides screwing with you :-)
-- 
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my 
friends. -Whitman

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#81447

FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> writes:

> Better to look at a grey screen, with a big grey apple... and hope that 
> your machine is doing something, besides screwing with you :-)

Yea.  Now I know why Apple doesn't default to the verbose boot mode.

It is sometimes useful, by the way, when a boot hangs.  "Sometimes"
coz the display can stop at the last successful process, not the one
that failed.

Billy Y..
-- 
        sub     #'9+1   ,r0             ; convert ascii byte
	add     #9.+1   ,r0             ; to an integer
	bcc     20$                     ; not a number

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#81448

In article <muquho$39d$1@reader2.panix.com>, billy@MIX.COM wrote:

> FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Better to look at a grey screen, with a big grey apple... and hope that 
> > your machine is doing something, besides screwing with you :-)
> 
> Yea.  Now I know why Apple doesn't default to the verbose boot mode.
> 
> It is sometimes useful, by the way, when a boot hangs.  "Sometimes"
> coz the display can stop at the last successful process, not the one
> that failed.
> 
> Billy Y..

I've decided against using verbose mode as a standard. That way the 
supervising agents that enter my home, when I'm not there can't se whats 
my setup is without cracking my login.
-- 
teleportation kills

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#81456

On 2015-10-04 06:20, billy@MIX.COM wrote:
> FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Better to look at a grey screen, with a big grey apple... and hope that
>> your machine is doing something, besides screwing with you :-)
>
> Yea.  Now I know why Apple doesn't default to the verbose boot mode.
>
> It is sometimes useful, by the way, when a boot hangs.  "Sometimes"
> coz the display can stop at the last successful process, not the one
> that failed.

A large real time app I wrote had a half dozen major modules, each with 
initialization code - I'd display the 'entry' into the init, as well as 
the completion.  (Though, IIRC only a couple of them were at much risk 
of a hang.).

--ModuleA-Init---Done
--ModuleB-Init---

Until "Done" appeared, you knew precisely where the program was during 
the init.

(Turbo Pascal from 4.0 had a very elegant module (unit) init and 
optional (less elegant) closing mechanism for units).

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#81461

On 2015-10-04 10:20:40 +0000, billy@MIX.COM said:

> FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Better to look at a grey screen, with a big grey apple... and hope that
>> your machine is doing something, besides screwing with you :-)
> 
> Yea.  Now I know why Apple doesn't default to the verbose boot mode.
> 
> It is sometimes useful, by the way, when a boot hangs.  "Sometimes"
> coz the display can stop at the last successful process, not the one
> that failed.
> 
> Billy Y..

Well, what I'd do, then was compare the hang point with a successful 
boot (one plus to having more than one bootable drive) and see where 
they differ.

Or check the logs.  (I have NO idea which logs... but I'm sure I could 
find out it I had the need to.)
-- 
Am I getting older... or is the Supermarket just playing *great* music?

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#81449

In article <011020152325496229%star@sky.net>, Davoud <star@sky.net> wrote:

> Maarten Carels:
> > Enter your admin password and you are set.
> > If you want to go back to normal boot, type:
> > 
> > sudo nvram boot-args=""
> > 
> > Hope this helps
> 
> It helped. It either undid what I did, or it hid what I did. What was I
> thinking!? Of what use to me is Unix gobbledygook scrolling past too
> fast to read it?

It lets you know when it's doing a full fsck on a disk or you have some other 
disk problem.

-- 
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'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.'
When is a Kenyan not a Kenyan? When he's a Canadian.
That's People's Commissioner Siri Cruz now. Punch!

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#81450

In article 
<chine.bleu-460944.03492404102015@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu>,
 Siri Cruz <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> wrote:

> In article <011020152325496229%star@sky.net>, Davoud <star@sky.net> wrote:
> 
> > Maarten Carels:
> > > Enter your admin password and you are set.
> > > If you want to go back to normal boot, type:
> > > 
> > > sudo nvram boot-args=""
> > > 
> > > Hope this helps
> > 
> > It helped. It either undid what I did, or it hid what I did. What was I
> > thinking!? Of what use to me is Unix gobbledygook scrolling past too
> > fast to read it?
> 
> It lets you know when it's doing a full fsck on a disk or you have some other 
> disk problem.

There's usually a progression bar present on the grey screen then disk 
maintenance is in progress...
-- 
teleportation kills

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