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How in OSX "Run As" and "Open As" (not command-line)
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Because you're using additional software when it should only take the single application. You shouldn't need a 3rd party app. Also, I'd prefer to view the file in Console because of its filtering capability that TextWrangler doesn't have.
Fair enough but then you can switch users or open console from CLI (which I know is out of scope for this thread). Apple is trying to keep the UI clean & simple, so sometimes relatively useless things are not there. But in this particular case I'd too rather just click on the grey log & be prompted for an admin password than greeted with a 'you don't have permissions' message, but certainly it would not make me look for a "run as" app on OS X. Incidentally there are sudo clone (e.g., "sudowin") 3rd party applications for Windows to work around it's unavoidable limitations. We're just talking about something fairly trivial on OS X.
Also since we're comparing to Windows, how on Windows would you delete an icon on *your* desktop which is really in the "all users" folder owned by another user & you don't have permission to trash it?
You're pretty brave! Please don't let us find you here reporting "SL bugs" that only you & about 10 other users are experiencing
lol thanks for the heads up. I keep forgetting how much crap Applescript hard codes at compile time. It should be fixed now.....
lol thanks for the heads up. I keep forgetting how much crap Applescript hard codes at compile time. It should be fixed now.....
Nice job. Worked for me for Console. It doesn't allow me to run Onyx, but I don't really care about that program.