CVS pserver launchd item for OS X 10.4
Inspired by the recent excellent launchd overview on afp548, I needed to set up a CVS pserver on our new Tiger Xserve box, migrating from an old Linux server.
Year: 2005
Bootable xrdiags CD
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
My Life As An HPC Admin, Part 1
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!
Auto-checking your webmail config
SquirrelMail's configuration script (/etc/squirrelmail/config/conf.pl) gives a handy piece of advice upon exiting.
Using scutil to set DNS server
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.
Building 64-bit MySQL on Mac OS X (10.4)
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?
Mailman Admin Password Reset After Cyrus reconstruct -i
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.
LDAP Info Tab Auto-fill
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!
Hopping on the Widget Bandwagon…
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...
Custom Weblog Tiger Server
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/…