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    sudo lsof -i no longer returns most processes after updating to Sequoia

    Sometimes I use sudo lsof -i to see what connections various applications and daemons are currently making. Immediately after updating from Sonoma to Sequoia, as in after the restart, the terminal command no longer returns the vast majority of processes, only a subset of them. At first I though...
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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...
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    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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