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  1. J

    Extracting diskarbitrationd and storagekitd from IPSW — possible?

    Hi all, I’m trying to dig into the internals of macOS and was wondering if anyone has experience extracting specific system daemons from an IPSW. In particular, I’m looking for diskarbitrationd and storagekitd from a macOS 26.x IPSW. I know IPSWs can be mounted and contain several payloads...
  2. DominikHoffmann

    How to install or enable a syslogd

    I have three WiFi access points that periodically misbehave. They keep rather short segments of logs, which are useless for troubleshooting. However, they can send ongoing logging information to a syslogd (system log daemon). In Mac OS X Server (back with Snow Leopard) this could easily be...
  3. D

    Kill AppleTV

    My son is staying up very late at night to watch appleTV. I once thought it was disabled after 12pm because I shutdown the internet via our router. Turns out this doesn't prevent viewing of local content. Is there way of preventing local traffic to the appleTV via home sharing? In previous...