Setting proxy servers via the command line

I am looking to find out how to set up the system to use http and https proxies via the command line instead of through system preferences. How do I do this. I have basic command line knowledge.

This information is stored in a plist file and is easiest to manipulate with PlistBuddy. For example, to set the HTTP proxy name, use:
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Set NetworkServices:6CFBA910-E4A0-4418-82E5-66A6480EBC71:Proxies:HTTPProxy http://my.proxy.com" /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist
Note: 6CFBA910-E4A0-4418-82E5-66A6480EBC71 is a UUID and likely to be unique on each machine. I don't have another Mac handy to check this. If so, you'll need to do some heavy to find out which one is the interface you need to address.
Try man PlistBuddy and/or a web search for more information on how this tool can be used.
Try man PlistBuddy or a web searc for more info on using it.

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I would like to manage resource designates via the command line and
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-e modify user rights, search filter
 
-add set user right on (-e only, default)
 
-resrc resource administration

The uniadmrights command is not able to assign designate rights. You can assign
rights such as the ability to create and manage public and administration
groups. The "Resource administration" flag exists so far only on the
server side, and it is currently not used by the client. This is for future use.

There are two ways to assign a designate to a resource:
<ol>
<LI>Log on as the resource via the client. There are only a few commands
available, one of them being the "Access Rights".

<LI>On the server side:

Edit the /users/unison/misc/resource.ini
file and create a new section to specify the resource designate.

[DES]
Designate0 = S=Lastname/G=Firstname

Run the unires command as follows:

% unires -mod "R=resourcename" -s DES 10000
[sysOpPsw]
</OL>

Note: The full resource name should be used eg. "R=Resource/N=1/CA=2/ID=2
57"

This sounds like a job for wget . You'll have to build and run it on Unix or Cygwin.
You could also build a test suite to do this in various testing tools. You could even write a short Perl or Groovy script to do this, or a slightly longer Java class.

How to initialize consumer from supplier via the command line ?

We have a small directory that gets loaded from scratch every night.
We also setted up replication to a couple of consumers (read only).
The problem is that since the data is loaded everynight, we get compliants in logs "Replica has a different generation ID than local database"
I can initialize the consumers via the gui. But how to do it from the command line from the master ? I know that an option is to do a db2ldif and then an ldif2db on the consumer but it's not an option for us.
I also tried setting the nsds5beginreplicarefresh to start, but that doesn't seem to do a full init.
There must be a way, as the gui actually does it.
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Basically it's very simple. Supposing your replication is already setup and you reload data to your master. If you want the initialization pushed to all the replicas automatically, you can simply setup a flag in all the agreements. This flag is called nsDS5BeginReplicaRefresh.
Please check the link:
http://docs.sun.com/source/816-6699-10/confattr.html#18194
nsDS5BeginReplicaRefresh
Allows you to initialize a replica. This attribute is absent by default. However, if you add this attribute with a value of start, the server reinitializes the replica and removes the attribute value.
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Value
Entry DN
cn=ReplicationAgreementName,cn=replica,cn="suffixName",
cn=mapping tree,cn=config
Valid Range
stop | start
Default Value
N/A
Syntax
DirectoryString
Example
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Also, if you want this happen to all the master's replicas, you have to setup for all the agreements.
I already tested and it turns out very magic.
So what you should do is whenver your master get reloaded, when it gets finished, call ldapmodify to set the attribute to be "start".
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How do I open a PDF to a specific page via the command line?

Several questions about opening PDFs from the Mac OS X command line:
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2) How do I use the "open" command to pass multiple arguments (page no, zoom scale, view mode, etc...) to open a PDF file in a specific manner?
3) Does Preview handle the same parameters as Acrobat Reader? If not, what are the differences in options?
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My goal: Open a PDF from the command line to a specific page. At first glance, I thought this would be simple to do and find -- however, after a lot of searching I haven't found an example on how to do it.
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Much appreciated! ---> Kelsey

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http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/skim-app/index.php?title=AppleScript
http://links.tedpavlic.com/shell_scripts/skim

Sending Reporting Services report via the command line

I would like to either execute a subscription that sends a report via email on demand. That or just email the report without having to edit the subscription date. Can this be done from the command line? I see there is the rs.exe utility
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Rollbak of SPAM transaction via the command line

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Using DHCP via the command line

Hi,
I'm using a PowerMac G4 with OSX 10.4 as a home server machine. This weekend, my ISP did some kind of network change and now this computer isn't able to connect to the internet. I use DHCP to connect, and on two other Macs I was able to go to network settings, turn off DHCP and turn it back on - and they can connect just fine now.
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Need to delete urlbar history via the command line

I need to embed a line in our login script that deletes the url bar history from Firefox, as part of our needs to keep browsing histories private. How can I do this?

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I have two video cameras connected to a linux box via usb and I want to send the streams from those cameras to a flash media server. But to do that I don't want to have to run X and a browser, because I'm running on an embedded system, I can't afford those processor cycles.
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On Thursday 24 Apr 2008, John Brahy wrote:
> I have two video cameras connected to a linux box via usb and I want to
> send the streams from those cameras to a flash media server. But to do that
> I don't want to have to run X and a browser, because I'm running on an
> embedded system, I can't afford those processor cycles.
Please
> Help!
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How can I start a second window of a second profile through the command line?

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Is there a way to switch between workspaces in Spaces from the command line? I want to write a script to set up certain applications in certain workspaces (without having to do it manually each time)...

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