You might have read some of our previous articles talking about using kicker to perform actions on network status changes.This was always an unsupported solution, and with Leopard it turns out that Apple no longer…
NausicaMedia, the first french company certified on Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server, has translated the "Tips and Tricks for Macintosh Management" of John de Troye in french.Although this is the Tiger Version, the Leopard's one is not released yet, everyone know how much this documentation can be important as a practice for a sysadmin.
Ed. Note: Perhaps a word of warning? Discuss. Firefox 3 appears to have issues with user accounts not located on the main drive. At the very least it cannot deal with a network user account being located on a remote OS X Server.When I updated to Firefox 3, I immediately noticed that Bookmarks were not visible under bookmarks menu.
Today marks the release of 10.5.3 Client and Server. There have been a few nasty bugs in Leopard Server that have given us a headache or two. The primary being being the Directory Services issue with AFP connections. The other one I wrote about awhile ago was in Server Admin and creating DNS records.
There were some bugs in the first version of the "Mac OS X Server Open Directory Administration For Version 10.5 Leopard" Check out the new version.
The MacEnterprise.org group will be presenting a Webcast on InstaDMG: Image Creation Revolution on April 15, 2008 at 1:00pm EDT (10:00am PDT). InstaDMG is revolutionizing the way that Mac sysadmins create ASR deployment images and it can help you too.
As part of some self-documentation, I posted on my personal blog exactly what works and where I found the help for getting an OpenDirectory 10.5 Server running from a 10.4 in production box. The twist is that I needed to keep my SID and other PDC functionality that I've inherited up from 10.3.9.
Leopard server brings us a new interface for managing amavis in Server Admin. But, using some of the options of Server Admin's GUI doesn't modify correctly /etc/amavisd.conf and brings some weird issues
LANrev announced today that their InstallEase automated packaging tool is now free.InstallEase is a tool for creating installer packages and has functionalities like automated "Before" and "After" snapshots…
After installing Leopard Server and ISC DHCPD, I had an itch- my logfile that I created (/var/log/dhcpd.log) was not getting rolled like the other logs. I started looking into how Apple does this, and found a nice utility that is new in Leopard, although not new to the UNIX world...
