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    What could have caused Master(postfix) to randomly run?

    While running the command sudo lsof -i in the command prompt, I got the message "sudo ignoring time stamp from the future", and then once I had entered my password, I noticed a process I hadn't seen before, master. Checking the launchd log, as the process had terminated by the time I checked...
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    Sudo lsof -i not showing certain ip address, but FF developer tools do?

    So usually, if I wanted to view the connections currently being made by my mac, I would use sudo lsof -i to get a list of processes and ip addresses. However, I have noticed something odd, especially with this site, macrumors. While the network tab of the developer tools for firefox list the ip...
  3. halloleo

    How to avoid spotlight to read/write to an external drive?

    I have an external Time Machine drive "Follow" which I do not want to be used by Spotlight. So I made sure it is in Spotlight's exclusion list: However I can still (even after hours) here the external disk churning away. Looking at the open files with Sloth (a GUI to `lsof`) I get: This...
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    • external disk lsof mds mds_stores spotlight
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    • Forum: macOS
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