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Sherlock is back!

If you remember back in the day when Apple was touting Sherlock indexing for webpages, this is for you. You can now do this with Spotlight, which should yield a more consistent experience.

This past weekend, I had my first request to set up a catch-all address for a domain in Tiger server. It’s fairly simple, and it requires some command line interaction.

Recently I was writing a shell script in which I needed to create a disk image, mount it, write to it, and dismount it. The command in OS X that manages disk images at the command line is hdiutil, and the man page is rather long. The syntax for the command is simple, but there are a lot of options to consider. In this particular example I’m going to create a sparse image that is only as large as the data contained within the image. You can adapt the command to create images to fit your needs.

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As the networking infrastructure guy, I occasionally have the need to update hardware or backup settings using the TFTP protocol. I’ve noticed that there are plenty of good instructions for how to make this work with Panther, but almost none for Tiger.

Piecing together all the information in the tiger server docs is a pain. I created these two pages to show people how to setup Tiger server as an Open Directory Master and share out Home folders.

Ed. Note: We have some more in-depth versions of this in our downloads section, but these are good overviews for the impatient.

OD Master setup

Network home folders

A while back Joel put up a script to backup the key components of the mail store for 10.3 server. With Tiger, we got the added benefit of AMaViS/ClamAV/SpamAssassin so I made a few changes…

Getting syslogd to be network aware in Tiger

While we have an earlier article on this, it was only for 10.3. So here’s an updated version that will walk you through using syslogd with launchd.

So, you like the little slider for Spam in Server Admin? It’s pretty cool, but there’s a bunch of stuff you can do to ‘enhance its performance’…

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It was a dark and stormy afternoon when Ian (maccanada) and I sat down to fight the beast that is LDAP migration from an up and running 10.3 Server to a brand new, out of the box, 10.4 server. Lucky for you, the battle was won by us, and the gory details of the fight will lay themselves out for you as you read on…

Revised Password Server details in article Aug 11, 2005

One of the great new additions to Tiger Server is the ability to easily create self-signed SSL certificates to secure services such as LDAP, Jabber IM, and mail. This article will cover my own implementation of SSL for mail services, however, it will probably be helpful to anyone wishing to secure mail services on their Tiger Server.