Disk Imaging for Mac OS X Server
Learn how to image a virgin install of OS X Server.If you are looking to roll out a number of server installs from a disk image, or you just want to be able to roll-back your test server quickly, read on.
Category: Servers and Services
Critical Mac OS X Server Vulnerability
Monday's Security Upate provides a fix to a critical vulnerability that allows malicious parties to trivially obtain administrative passwords.In other words, it would behoove you to run this update sooner rather than…
Silva CMS – Installer for MacOS X
A package installer for the Silva CMS system on OSX.The package maker is looking to get feedback from people running OS X Server on how the package installer works.
WIP * Server on the Cheap – Part 1
Summary You Need a set of Services - ( Mail, File Servers, Web, etc) You are on a budget, (home use, elementary school, small office) When you are done - you want to be able to point at something and "know" just what you've done and how it "really" is working.
Analyzing Amavis logs – UPDATED
Turn your spam into colorful art! Use amavis-stats and rrdtool to chart out your spam/ham/virus history from your mail logs.
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.
Do it yourself .Mac
Is your iDisk a little poky and just not quite big enough? Build yourself an iDisk locally on your server! Use Backup.app to back up your Mac systems to your own file server. See the detailed Solo .Mac article here. Ed. Note: While the article walks you through doing this on a FreeBSD box, the methodology will help you to do this on your own server.
OS X Server w/NAT, IPFW, DNS, and Squid – Updated
Set up your server as a NAT router to do transparent web proxy caching.Update: New URL. Find the new Squid/NAT/IPFW/DNS document here.
Poor Man’s Video Substitute
If you ordered an X-Server without a video card, but need one here's a down-n-dirty tip: If you have an old B&W PowerMac lying around, swipe the video card from it and use it in the upper slot. It works fine, won't void your warranty and gives you the basic functionality you need to manage the beastie!
BDB Utilities
The Berkeley DB tools that should have come with the OS Michael Bartosh has a pkg installer for the Berkeley DB utilities that are necessary to roll your Cyrus and OpenLDAP transaction logs in addition to performing other housekeeping chores for any bdb database.