Patching Bash “shellshock” on Apple Mac OS X 10.9.5

Given the recent bash vulnerability disclosure[1]most linux distributions havereleased patches. Unfortunately Apple still expected users to compiletheir patches into bash. If you were using Homebrew or Macport you werein better standing and simply had to create symlinks to the patchedexecutables. I’ve documented the steps I had to take on my Macdesktop. Compile mkdir bash cd bash/ wget http://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/bash/bash-92.tar.gz tar zxvf bash-92.tar.gz cd bash-92 cd bash-3.2/ curl https://ftp.

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CentOS 6.4 VirtualBox VM won’t boot up after doing an update/upgrade!!!

Often times, I employ a CentOS VirtualBox virtual machine (VM) as adevelopment, testing and staging environment, I love the flexibility ofvirtual environments for testing and development work before moving mywork to production environments. Recently I ran a yum update and yum upgrade on a CentOS 6.4 VM andsubsequently rebooted it, only to be greeted by a blank screen followingbootup. A quick search of virtual TTY terminals yielded a loginprompt.

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