Reference

We often need to provide links and references to useful documentation. This section is home to documents, guides, and materials we have found helpful.

• Authorization Rights and Database on macOS
• Setting up VNC on macOS

Manual Pages

Below are a selection of macOS manual pages. These pages are also available via the Terminal.app using the man command: man pmset

• caffeinate - Prevent the system from sleeping on behalf of a utility.
• cron - Daemon to execute scheduled commands.
• defaults - Access the Mac OS X user defaults system.
• diskutil - Modify, verify and repair local disks.
• launchd - System wide and per-user daemon/agent manager.
• log - Access system wide log messages created by os_log, os_trace and other logging systems.
• mount_smbfs - Mount a shared resource from an SMB file server
• open - Open files and directories.
• pmset - Manipulate power management settings.
• security tool - Command line interface to keychains and Security framework.
• sfltool - Tool for testing and debugging SharedFileList.
• shutdown - Close down the system at a given time
• softwareupdate - System software update tool.
• syslog - Apple System Log utility.
• tmutil - Time Machine utility.