Apple's Unix part of their OS continues to become more grotty and shitty over time. On a default install on a brand new Mac you've got shitty services complaining that something died and a listener will be restarted HUNDREDS OF TIMES A MINUTE, in the logs. Apropos doesn't work, because the DB wasn't properly made nor will it allow you to store it. So every time you run apropos, it has to do makewhatis on the whole man tree. Every time. It's chock full of new commands and daemons with each new release if you poke around on the system. But fucked if you can find out what they're doing, because the manual page usually says something like "This command is not intended to be invoked manually." If they has a man page at all!
At one point I was greeted with the option of changing my login shell one day when I opened the terminal after an updoot. Why would Apple do this? What mystery did they uncover about the default shell, which was still installed and still worked?
At one point I was greeted with the option of changing my login shell one day when I opened the terminal after an updoot. Why would Apple do this? What mystery did they uncover about the default shell, which was still installed and still worked?
