Better periodic maintenance
This solves a problem with laptops (and/or desktops) being on again off again and perhaps missing the absolute time of the cron jobs run via periodic (daily, weekly, monthly).
Category: Scripting and Automation
Command to return currently used network interface?
Ed. Note: There are a number of ways of doing this, so I'm curious as to what people are using in their scripts?does anyone no of a terminal command that will reveal which network interface (built-in ethernet, AirPort, etc.
Simple Print Accounting System for Mac OS X Server
A customer of ours needs to implement a simple accounting system for their printers. They are using a Mac OS X Server as a printserver for the users. That seems to work ok, but the problem is that there is no kind of accounting system.
Logout Script
We have a client that uses a few apple computers as kiosks. When a person logs onto the machine they want them to let it be active for 30 minutes then to have it logout. They also wanted the machine to warn them when they had 5 minutes left.
Disk Quota Reporting with PHP
I've had a few issues with disk quotas recently on my OS X Server file servers, and I needed to come up with a way for my student assistants to be able to view disk quota values for my staff so that they could easily tell who was over or approaching their quota.
Resurrecting Daemons with SystemStarter
Let SystemStarter do your dirty work for you No need to remember how to start/stop a process on your own if a good StartupItem was written for it.
Script to remove redundant Office2004 fonts
Have you ever noticed that Office 2004 installs fonts all over the place? You can use this handy script by Arek Dreyer to remove them after they have been installed. (Ed. note: You can remove the DoFonts file from the Office folder to keep it from installing them in the first place.
Using Scripting to Change a Local Password
Running a large network of macs in a secure environment leads to regular password changes on the local administrator account. Doing this in a 10.3 environment is quite a simple endeavor, but for those with some older 10.2.x machines around, it can be quite frustrating.
Using pwpolicy to Manage User Password Policies via CLI
Have you ever wanted or needed to change a user's password policies from the command line? Read on to find out how pwpolicy can help you manage user's passwords without Workgroup Manager.
Log Rolling made easy in 10.2.x-10.3.x
Log Rolling with periodic How to get periodic to keep all of your logs tidy.