Learn How to Use Your Xserve RAID Card Before You Get It
Had an Xserve with the RAID card on order since before time began? As of 10.3.5 you can take a look at man megaraid or at Apple's RAID card docs and learn how to use it before it comes.
Category: Servers and Services
Unique ID Module Errors (Apache)
After a software update and reboot together with some system tweaking, my personal webserver was not loading httpd successfully. I checked /var/log/httpd/error_log and found this: "[alert] mod_unique_id: unable to gethostbyname" followed by my hostname - actually, the hostname I had specified when setting up my server.
Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.3.5 and Mac OS X Server 10.3.5
Apple has released Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server 10.3.5. Read on for more info...
Cyrus Squatter for OS X Server
Squatter indexes Cyrus mailboxes for faster searching The version Apple includes in OS X Server is a bit busted so download it here.
Procmail on Panther Server
For those of us who either don't want to use sieve, or haven't been able to make it work properly--despite Mr. Rennich's best efforts to help--setting up procmail filtering is not too difficult.
Asterisk on MacOSX with Aqua GUI tools
We have made an OSX build of Asterisk, the open source PBX and telephony server available as an OSX install package.We are also developing Cocoa based GUI tools for configuration and management of Asterisk on MacOSX. A pre-release of the first GUI tool is now available.
Installing Much Needed Developer Tools Remotely
MacTroll has been very good about posting helpful tutorials for the installation of various unix-type tools and plugins for OSX Server. However, many of you might find (as I have) that attempted unix installs sometimes just don't work (usually with a returned error like "no c-compiler found" or the like).
Creating Domain Admins on an OS X Server PDC
Use the "net" command to create Admin users on your windows machines.
A True Tale of an Xserve install
Notes of the install process for the new AFP548 Xserve A discussion of some best practices for installing servers. Specifically those bound for co-locations facilities, but good ideas for any install.
FreeRADIUS installer for OSXS
Get FreeRADIUS working with Open Directory users Take a look at this pkg installer to get a radius server running on your OS X Server.