Error opening terminal: xterm-256color

After opening a remote ssh session to Lion and Mountain Lion clients and attempting to launch pico (I know, I know, "real men use vi") I get the following error:

"Error opening terminal: xterm-256color"

Here is the fix (must be run from Terminal on the machine itself):

• Open Terminal
• Type "pico ~/.profile" (if it doesn't exist go ahead and create it)
• Enter the lines:
• TERM="xterm"
• export TERM

• Exit and save

ssh to the computer again and when you launch pico it should now open

Recon fails on Macs running CS6: Adobe SpeedGrade issue

We have noticed a very annoying problem where Casper Recon fails repeatedly with the logs showing a BUS error.

There is a good discussion over on Jamf Nation about the issue.  The problem is caused by a symbolic link in the Adobe SpeedGrade application that links to the application itself.  Recon essentially gets caught in a loop and will eventually fail.

The fix is to either delete SpeedGrade if you don't need it or remove the symbolic link. You can do this manually or create a Casper package to automate the process.  Here is the location to the link:

/Applications/Adobe SpeedGrade CS6/Adobe SpeedGrade CS6.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe SpeedGrade CS6.app

Remove the "Adobe SpeedGrade CS6.app" and then Recon should complete successfully.

Change Mac hostname from Terminal

Sometimes I have found that changing the Mac's hostname from System Preferences/Sharing doesn't do the job.  In these cases it is best to change the hostname from Terminal:

sudo scutil --set HostName [new hostname]

Example: sudo scutil --set HostName LDNMAC-1234




Show hidden user Library folder in 10.7 and 10.8

I keep having to look this up because I can never remember the Terminal command:

chflags nohidden /Users/[user folder name]/Library

example: chflags nohidden /Users/tom.smith/Library