scutil can allow to change a number of OS X settings including the DNS servers.

However it is more than a bit cryptic in it’s use.

You're most likely reading this because you're as sick as I am of seeingmalloc warnings when trying to start up MySQL in Mac OS X on your Xservewith 8GB of RAM and you've configured MySQL to use more than 4GB. If I've got 8GB of RAM, why can't I use more than 4GB in MySQL? Well, just because you've got 64-bit processors and an OS with64-bit support doesn't mean that your applications run in 64-bit. Youhave to explicitly build your application for the 'ppc64' architecturein order to take advantage of 64-bit addressing and use more than 4GBof RAM. Here's how you build MySQL as a 64-bit application.

Read on for more…

For those of you out there that use the mailman feature of OS X Server this is important. I have had to rebuild the Cyrus DB on more then one occasion. I don’t often go into the mailman site to fix anything since it is the way I want it for now. When I do I have had a problem with both the Mail List Admin and Site Admin passwords being reset.

That info tab with all it’s empty fields has been taunting me with all it’s wonderful uses, but sitting down and filling in 500+ users with all their individual data is not something even I’d wish on my worst enemy!

Read On for details on how to have all the fields filled in 30 minutes or less…

We’re all having fun with Dashboard widgets, right? If nothing else it’s a useful way to try and convince ourselves that we all need 30″ displays just for all the new informational widgets we have now…

So, just to keep up with all the rest, the new AFP548.com RSS widget

See, told you Dashboard was useful!

I did some tweaking of our default OSX server weblog. The files were buried but I found them, if you would like to do this they can be found in:

Example:
http://www.macprofessionals.com/weblog/

/Library/Tomcat/blojsom_root/webapps/ROOT/blojsom_resources

Images are located in:
/Library/Tomcat/blojsom_root/webapps/ROOT/blojsom_resources/images/

Stylesheets (CSS):
/Library/Tomcat/blojsom_root/webapps/ROOT/blojsom_resources/stylesheets/

On your Tiger server.

A quick overview of doing redirects from non-ssl to ssl websites.

Ed. Note: While you should be able to do this in the 10.4 web GUI, you were unable do this in earlier versions of OS X Server. That’s where this comes in handy, although this method should work for all version of OS X, or Apache on any system for that matter.

Everything you should need to know about the initial setup of Mail.

Read the latest installment, outlining some of the best software choices, techniques and practices for backing up your Mac OS X Server.

Many people are having sudden problems with Cyrus in 10.3.8, 10.3.9, and 10.4. A corruption of mailboxes.db leaves users unable to access any emails at all.

Read on for how to work around this.