One of the big features of Tiger Server's mail server was the addition of spam filtering. It was a bit bumpy in the beginning, but once you fix the bayesian filtering things work quite nicely. A question that always gets asked is, "How much spam am I blocking?
It's often required to know the ID number of a certain process. In many *NIX distributions, this is done using the "pidof" utility which OS X lacks. While we have "killall" which is useful for sending signals to processes by name, what if we just need the ID number?
The next MacEnterprise.org webcast, Apple Remote Desktop 3 and Automator: A match made in heaven, will take place on Tuesday, May 16.
A perl script to read individual user spam and ham folders. After I got Bayes learning to work correctly in SpamAssassin, I wanted a more convenient way for users to mark messages that were incorrectly classified.
Filling in the holes where the system lags a bit, here's a quick way to get e-mail quota warnings out to your users So I got bitten this morning by a user who hit their IMAP quota limit and didn't get any alerts from Mail.app about it, possibly because he reckoned he hadn't quit Mail.app or logged out of his machine for about a month...
Managing Software Update with Open Directory is a nice feature of v10.4 Server, but trying to automate the delivery over those updates is a little cumbersome. Some users have set up a cron job to periodically execute the softwareupdate command-line utility.
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.
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.
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!
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!
