Archive for August, 2004

Have you tried to run diskutil in single user mode only to be shot down by a ‘lazy carbon values’ error message?

Read on to find out how to get diskutil to run in SUM on Mac OS X 10.3.x!

Kanaka – a plugin for OS X clients to better use eDirectory

Not that you couldn’t do this before with just using the LDAPv3 plugin, but this tool should make things quicker and easier.

Join the beta program to try this out.

Find out everything about any process on your box.

Use ktrace to trace kernel activity for any process.

Backing up and restore can be a problem but I have recently found that xtar (free from Helios) is a wonderful solution to this problem.