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Can I create a socket file on mac?
I am missing /tmp/mysql.sock. It has signature srwxrwxrwx. Is it possible to create this file by hand?
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sshfs mounting linux directory from mac stopped working
Until this morning, I'd been using sshfs quite nicely to mount a directory from a linux machine in my office. Today, it stopped. Here's my sshfs command:
sshfs -osshfs_sync,volname=linux-builder3 ...
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Simulating a network issue for a specific application
This is somehow a developer question, but as it is more related to operating systems and network connections, I will post it here and not on Stack Overflow.
I'm trying to simulate a situation when a ...
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OSX: how to check what is taking ports or sockets
I am having trouble with L2TP/IPSec on my OS X 10.7.2 machine and I was wondering what is the best way to figure out which process is taking particular sockets or ports;
My related posts (below), ...
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OS X: how to figure out what prevents L2TP/IPSec from running correctly
It seems that an old installation of Cisco Anyconnect prevents the OS X built-in L2TP/IPSec client from running (I posted a question here: OS X 10.7, can't log into any L2TP VPN server, but didn't ...
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What is the simplest way to test a plain socket server
I have a server which listens on a socket for incoming connections and outputs a welcome text ("Hello world"). What is the simplest way to test this with plain tools from the operating system (here OS ...
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Does Mac OS X throttle the RATE of socket creation?
This may seem programming related, but this is an OS question.
I'm writing a small high performance daemon that takes thousands of connections per second. It's working fine on Linux (specifically ...
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MySQL socket connections working, but not port connections
I installed MySQL community 5.1.45 on my Snow Leopard 10.6, using the pkg from their site. I had previously installed a MySQL binary from entropy.ch. In the previous installation, the connections were ...
