[chiefgeek]

First, I assume they were RAID level 1.
Macshome has an article [url=https://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=20040827122302975&query=diskutil%2Braid]here[/url] on how to do it.
I don’t think you want to repair the mirror, especially not both drives. I’ve broken a mirrored set on purpose (shut down, pull plug) a few times and can still boot from the remaining drive.
Sounds like perhaps it was RAID 0, in which case, you’re hosed. 😯

[chiefgeek]

You can and should have your ISP create both an “A” record and a reverse entry for the FQDN of your server. As long as you don’t change the MX record or the WWW record in DNS, your services will continue to fxn.

Once you have the server configured and ready to provide web and mail, then have your ISP change the appropriate entries such that they point to your new server.

(The above assumes you have a static / public IP address assigned and routed to your server.)

[chiefgeek]

You need to hand edit the /var/named/yourcompany.zone file with a text editor.
An entry such as this:
http://www.yourfqdn.net IN CNAME purple
Where “purple” in this case is the name of the server to which www. yourfqdn.net resolves should do it.
After editing, DO NOT make any changes to that zone file with Tiger Server Admin; it will bork this (and any other handmade) changes.

[chiefgeek]

Do you have any ACLs in place that would specifically prohibit access to the user or group?

[chiefgeek]

Also seems like if you keep an instance of Server Admin connected to the server it can spawn this problem.

[chiefgeek]

Our server that was doing this was diagnosed (on the second trip to the Apple Store two years later) with a bad optical drive. As I reflect on it, the drive always was a bit pokey. Problem was, the system installed. Every time. No errors, no nothing. And then things would begin going horribly wrong….

After having the optical drive replaced, the server is currently installed and working fine as an OD replica with a relatively light workload.

[chiefgeek]

I got very similar errors when setting up my server.

Creating the keytab file
Configuring services
WriteSetupFile: setup file path = /temp.IeK4/setup
Cleaning up
2006-02-12 20:14:58 -0800 – command: /usr/sbin/sso_util configure -r ourserver.domain.com -f /LDAPv3/127.0.0.1 -a diradmin -p **** -v 1 ldap
2006-02-12 20:14:59 -0800 – sso_util command output:
Contacting the directory server
Creating the service list
Creating the service principals
WARNING: no policy specified for ldap/ourserver.domain.com@ ourserver.domain.com; defaulting to no policy
Creating the keytab file
Configuring services
WriteSetupFile: setup file path = /temp.HX6L/setup
Cleaning up
2006-02-12 20:14:59 -0800 – command: /sbin/kerberosautoconfig -u -v 1
2006-02-12 20:14:59 -0800 – kerberosautoconfig command output:
The machine is standalone
Removing /Library/Preferences/edu.mit.Kerberos
2006-02-12 20:14:59 -0800 – kerberosautoconfig command failed with status 255
2006-02-12 20:14:59 -0800 – command: /usr/sbin/mkpassdb -kerberize
2006-02-12 20:14:59 -0800 – mkpassdb command output:
kadmin.local: unable to get default realm
kadmin.local: unable to get default realm
kadmin.local: unable to get default realm

However, I decided to go ahead and give it a shot by configuring a client to bind to it and it worked. Very strange!

[chiefgeek]

We had the same problem. It was the “*” in the alias section for the site. Get rid of it.

[chiefgeek]

Same problem here. Using the gui.

[chiefgeek]

I’ve installed two Xserve G5s for customers with the HW raid card and three 400gb drives running L5 and would recommend it. Good speed and reasonable redundancy.

Not sure what exactly the 80gb drive is for in current setup?

[chiefgeek]

FWIW, we have both our Xserve G4s on a APC 3000VA UPS. While I don’t want to say out loud what the machines HAVEN’T done for awhile (restarted themselves), they were doing so while connected to the UPS.

[chiefgeek]

I’ll throw in a “third.” Tried installing awstats the other night and gave up after about three hours. A unix expert I’m not, but man, those are some convoluted directions….

[chiefgeek]

Aaron Hillegass has a good book about Cocoa Programming.

[chiefgeek]

Have you checked the “Disconnect when idle” settings?

This may seem silly, but it happened to me!

[chiefgeek]

Pull the Cisco and give it a try.

Not sure exactly how or even if the lan hw is causing the servers cpus to peg, unless there is congestion / confusion (do you like my tech terms) and it is causing the machines to resend the same data over and over.

Errors with Half / Full duplex on auto-negiotiation do strange things.

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