Archive for July, 2005

Have you ever wanted to run the Xserve Remote Diagnostics without setting up a netboot server? Well now you can. Full instructions can be found at the following web site.

http://homepage.mac.com/javaist/xrdiags.html

This article, the first of an intro to HPC, could also be called, “Centralized Scripting for Workstation Management”, so don’t let the scary HPC title put you off! In reality we can all learn a bit from how an HPC (High Performance Computing) environment is managed to better streamline even the smallest computer setup – after all, more streamlined means more spare time to spend out of the office!

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SquirrelMail’s configuration script (/etc/squirrelmail/config/conf.pl) gives a handy piece of advice upon exiting. It recommends running SM’s built-in check script, by browsing to this address:

http://www.example_domain.com/webmail/src/configtest.php

This give a nice list of pass/fail info on your SM setup.

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.

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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…