Over time version control has become more popular within the sysadmin realm, with one of the most popular version control systems being git. Graham goes over some of the reasons that it is a good idea to use Git in your everyday work over on his blog.
Gary Larizza - Puppet Labs Have you ever wondered how many times we make changes to files or scripts in a deployment process? Gary Larizza did and in a volcanic session, explained how this can be kept under control by tracking changes using a powerful open-source tool called Git.
With OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion came some new Unix commands that are very handy. Among them is pgrep and pkill, which rolls grep into the ps command so you no longer have to pipe ps to grep in order to find a running process.
If you're not familiar with the Pymacadmin project - you should be. Nigel Kersten and Chris Adams have created an awesome tool called crankd that will let you execute Python code or shell scripts in response to system events.What does this mean to you?Do you have laptop users that are bound to OD or AD?
For those who haven't tried it, Nagios is quite a cool monitoring package that will run on UNIX (Ed. There fixed that!) variants, including OS X Server. John C. Welch wrote up an article on setting up Nagios with a Leopard Server which was my inspiration.
I've borrowed from Peter Bukowinski's script that will lookup when an AD user's password is due to expire, and expanded upon it to run as a task in the OS X menu bar. The applet includes preference settings for the following: Adjust how often you are required to change your password (5 - 365 days).Automatically launch the applet at logon.
If you've ever tried using the command line to change the defult NetBoot image on your OS X Server, you know that it can be a pain in the butt and have probably resigned yourself to just using the GUI -- even though it…
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…
Sponsored by IronGate Server Management & Consulting, in association with Digital Transitions the next OS X Integrators Birds of a Feather gathering is taking place at MaRS Discovery District on College St.
In migrating one of our servers from 10.4 to 10.5, we run into a couple of problems, some of which were easily solved, some we're still working on. In particular, this issue regarded using the RT ticket tracking system from Best Practical.
