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Year: 2005

Mail

Repairing Cyrus in 10.3.9

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.

By JonThompson 1 min read

Files and Storage

Putting the Fun into Xsan Fundamentals

Getting all the Xsan pieces straight in your head When Xsan came out, it was the first time that the average Apple System Administrator had seen a Storage Area Network (SAN), and as a result, there's a lot of questions about how to best deal the very fundamentals of an Xsan setup.

By andrina 11 min read

Files and Storage

Grokking Darwin ACLs

I have to admit, when I first heard that Apple was adding ACLs to the next version of OS X, I got a pretty nasty lump in my throat and ordered another pint of ale. I was first introduced to ACLs in DFS on AIX and I still have nightmares and flashbacks of files which can't be deleted by root and will forever remain on the disk until the next newfs.

By msolberg 5 min read

Files and Storage

Tiger ACL’s and everyone permissions

Q: Ok there has to be a way to do this... I just upgraded to tiger and I have some sharepoints that many users access. When a user creates a file or folder in the share point it gets the standard 755 umask. I used to be able to get around this by changing the AFP protocol to inherit permissions instead of POSIX behavior.

By zstarke 1 min read