Archive for November, 2006

Howto kill lookupd after editing the hosts file on OS X

Posted on November 9th, 2006 in Code, Asides

After editing the hosts file (mate /etc/hosts), instead of restarting the computer or logging out, this line will restart lookupd:

sudo kill -HUP cat /var/run/lookupd.pid

Using the terminal with MAMP on OS X

Posted on November 8th, 2006 in Code, Asides

Recently I was going to take the promising Symfony PHP framework out for a quick test drive, but ran into trouble in the very beginning of the tutorial. I’m running MAMP for local PHP development, but the terminal is using the built-in PHP version for its command line scripting. And Symfony is all about generating […]