Adding your curret directory to your PATH with PATH=${PATH}:. can be a security risk. Someone might disable a common system command and place a trojaned someplace sensitive. just…

If someone has enough privileges to remove system commands, you've got a lot more to worry about than a trojan. Let's say some luser writes a program that appends + + to ~/.rhosts…

If someone has enough privileges to remove system commands, you've got a lot more to worry about than a trojan. Let's say some luser writes a program that appends + + to ~/.rhosts…

It's still there. Do you not get it? Do you have a Services menu at all? There is an intermittent problem where sometimes the first time you bring it up the entries in the menu a…

i don't get a mail submenu in OS X--i get 3 menus. diisk copy grab text edit that's it..... when exactly does the "services" menu come up? it seems like random apps have it...

Right now, Services menu is available in Cocoa apps only. As far as what items appear in there: This depends on your current selection (text or graphic or file or ...). If in a g…

Quote: Originally posted by QuatermassX: Wow ... I'm learning all sorts of new skills with OSX (and my brain is beginning to hurt)! My currently problem is a PHP script…

Sorry, actually "pdflatex" DOES run just fine from the command line ... attributes and all ... and that's the maddening part of this ... Works from the command line, but not PHP .…

Ah HA! I had to insert the full path to "pdflatex" in my script ... weird ... but the thing runs beautifully now! Oh, the full app is for online creation of custom PDF's from La…

any chance of writing a "how-to"? I would love to be able to create pdfs from php. thanks

Hmm, well, this is a project for work, so I'm not free to post all the code. HOWEVER ;-) There's nothing all that fancy going on with the project. I have a bunch of books written …

Quote: Originally posted by QuatermassX: I need to slice and dice them and generate PDF's from the customized content via a web-browser-based interface. Wait - does…

Quote: Originally posted by rustyweaver: Thanks very much to the ShowAllFiles posting that allows me to view all system files in the finder. If you tried building bash …

Ok, I got it to work. Here is what I did. 1.) download the file "tube-linux-sound-0.9.1.tar.gz" from the tube installation page (http://www.fhloston.ch/tube/index.html). 2.) mad…

Ok, I got it to work. Here is what I did. 1.) download the file "tube-linux-sound-0.9.1.tar.gz" from the tube installation page (http://www.fhloston.ch/tube/index.html). 2.) mad…

Wlcome to the forum. You may want to check out both the tools that come with Darwin and the Developer Tools for OS X that Apple has on line. Poke around the threads in OS X Develo…

for the third time ive posted this reply, gcc is cc in the apple developer tools. get the dev tools, either the hacked copy from the darwin image or the apple dev tools from http…

I'm not happy about downloading 70Mb over a modem just to get cc. If someone could stick the 'cc' and 'make' binaries on the internet somewhere, that'd be great.

Well, if you really wanted I bet someone would mail those two binaries to you, but what would you do with them then? In order to compile something you would still need an assemble…

hi, i'm from France and i hadn't had any prblems to download the tools, when yousign up it provide automatically an ftp adress near you (for me i had downloaded from Europe site.…

They're available from the Darwin CVS site I think. more info at http://www.opensource.apple.com/