[vampyreapocalyps]

I had the same problem with 10.3. I hate adobe. I dump down the pkg installer to the root of the HD during imaging and have a first boot script that installs it (via sudo installer) after a reboot. We’re uding JAMF Casper here… Did I mention I hate adobe?

[vampyreapocalyps]

:/….

Ok the other IT guy here must have fixed it without telling me. He does that a lot. Thanks for the help…

Darn I was really hoping to learn something. Maybe I can bribe him with lunch in return for telling me what he did.

Thanks,
Andrew

[vampyreapocalyps]

I think it’s worthwhile to mention that internal addresses do not seem to resolve properly. I’ve posted the results of a dig to mail.mnn.org using both the primary and the backup DNS

[code]andrew-caldwells-macbook-pro:~ andrew$ dig @192.168.1.27 mail.mnn.org

; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> @192.168.1.27 mail.mnn.org
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6770 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;mail.mnn.org. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: mail.mnn.org. 3600 IN CNAME od-replica.mnn.org. od-replica.mnn.org. 3600 IN A 192.168.1.27 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: mnn.org. 3600 IN NS od-master.mnn.org. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: od-master.mnn.org. 3600 IN A 192.168.1.32 ;; Query time: 1 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.1.27#53(192.168.1.27) ;; WHEN: Fri Jan 30 15:51:27 2009 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 111 andrew-caldwells-macbook-pro:~ andrew$ dig mail.mnn.org ; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> mail.mnn.org
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 56008 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;mail.mnn.org. IN A ;; Query time: 2 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.1.32#53(192.168.1.32) ;; WHEN: Fri Jan 30 15:51:45 2[/code]

[vampyreapocalyps]

[code]
andrew-caldwells-macbook-pro:~ andrew$ dig @192.168.1.32 http://www.apple.com

<<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> @192.168.1.32 http://www.apple.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 9270 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 9, ADDITIONAL: 4 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.apple.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: http://www.apple.com. 1800 IN CNAME http://www.apple.com.akadns.net.
http://www.apple.com.akadns.net. 60 IN A 17.251.200.32

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
akadns.net. 172741 IN NS zc.akadns.org.
akadns.net. 172741 IN NS zd.akadns.org.
akadns.net. 172741 IN NS eur1.akadns.net.
akadns.net. 172741 IN NS use3.akadns.net.
akadns.net. 172741 IN NS use4.akadns.net.
akadns.net. 172741 IN NS usw2.akadns.net.
akadns.net. 172741 IN NS asia9.akadns.net.
akadns.net. 172741 IN NS za.akadns.org.
akadns.net. 172741 IN NS zb.akadns.org.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
za.akadns.org. 3541 IN A 195.219.3.169
zb.akadns.org. 3441 IN A 12.183.125.5
zc.akadns.org. 3341 IN A 124.211.40.4
zd.akadns.org. 3141 IN A 204.2.178.133

;; Query time: 2122 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.32#53(192.168.1.32)
;; WHEN: Fri Jan 30 15:46:39 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 323
[/code]

So this looks like it resolved properly... Forgive my ineptitude, DNS is probably my weakest skill.

Thanks,
Andrew

[vampyreapocalyps]

I also did a tail -f /var/log/system.log and stopped then started dns. these are the results of that:

Jan 30 12:44:51 od-master bootpd[986]: service time 0.000821 seconds
Jan 30 12:44:52 od-master bootpd[986]: DHCP REQUEST [en0]: 1,0:1c:b3:75:1a:87
Jan 30 12:44:52 od-master bootpd[986]: service time 0.000197 seconds
Jan 30 12:45:10 od-master bootpd[986]: DHCP REQUEST [en0]: 1,0:21:e9:61:f1:63 Jan 30 12:45:10 od-master bootpd[986]: dhcpd: INIT-REBOOT host 1,0:21:e9:61:f1:63 binding for 192.168.2.165 with another server
Jan 30 12:45:10 od-master bootpd[986]: service time 0.000280 seconds
Jan 30 12:45:16 od-master sudo: admin : TTY=ttyp1 ; PWD=/Users/admin ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/named-checkconf /etc/named.conf
Jan 30 12:46:55 od-master bootpd[986]: DHCP REQUEST [en0]: 1,0:1d:4f:aa:d9:a1
Jan 30 12:46:55 od-master bootpd[986]: dhcpd: INIT-REBOOT host 1,0:1d:4f:aa:d9:a1 binding for 192.168.2.179 with another server
Jan 30 12:46:55 od-master bootpd[986]: service time 0.000549 seconds
Jan 30 12:47:43 od-master sudo: admin : TTY=ttyp1 ; PWD=/Users/admin ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/serveradmin stop dns
Jan 30 12:47:44 od-master serveradmin: servermgr_dns: hostname and DNS entries for this server are synchronized
Jan 30 12:47:58 od-master sudo: admin : TTY=ttyp1 ; PWD=/Users/admin ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/serveradmin start dns
Jan 30 12:48:05 od-master serveradmin: servermgr_dns: no name available via DNS for 192.168.1.32
Jan 30 12:48:05 od-master serveradmin: servermgr_dns: no reverse DNS entry for server, various services may not function properly
Jan 30 12:48:05 od-master named[1517]: starting BIND 9.3.5-P2 -f
Jan 30 12:48:05 od-master named[1517]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#54

[vampyreapocalyps]

Yes, sorry for the lack of information in my first post, the forum kept saying it was finding spam and deleting the post.

192.168.1.32 is our primary dns server and 192.168.1.27 is our backup.

named.log on 192.168.1.27 (od-replica) continually produces the error message ‘zone mnn.org/IN: refresh: unexpected rcode (SERVFAIL) from master 192.168.1.32#53 (source 0.0.0.0#0)’

these are the results of a changeip -checkhostname on 192.168.1.32 (od-master)

[code]od-master:~ admin$ sudo changeip -checkhostname
Password:

Primary address = 192.168.1.32

Current HostName = od-master.mnn.org
DNS HostName = od-master.mnn.org

The names match. There is nothing to change.[/code]

Any other information needed, just let me know.

Thanks,
Andrew

[vampyreapocalyps]

This is what I have started doing. I have to agree it does make licensing non-VLK software easier.

[vampyreapocalyps]

Thanks for the replies so far.

Primarily I’m interested in Adobe CS2, FCS 2.0, FCS 5.1, ARD 3, and Diskwarrior 3.

Thanks!

[vampyreapocalyps]

Right. Thanks.

We have volume licenses for all our software so that won’t be a problem. I’ve run into that issue many times before with Radmind.

Any help would be appreciated. I’ll start investigating but I’m lazy 😛

[vampyreapocalyps]

Yeah we are using webmin to manage postfix for the most part. But as a previous non-postfix admin I am still more comfortable with SA and the GUI as of yet. I’m learning though. We aren’t managing DNS outside of SA

[vampyreapocalyps]

Well, it ended up being a misconfigured main.cf. I had suspected this, but it was not apparent at all. It was a missing white space, causing postfix to interpret two separate parameters as one instead.

Obviously the GUI showed that everything was configured correctly, so it was a few days before we checked this file. We ended up running a diff command on the main.cf and bu files to find it. Luckily my coworker has run into these types of problems before.

TGFBUs! (Thank Goodness for BackUps!).

——-

On a side note, we had a similar problem with DNS (probably related to our network crash of last week) where we ended up replacing named.conf with named.bu. We tried to diff the log files, but bc of the inane way SA parses log files we ended up trying to eyeball it, and ultimately replaced .conf with .bu. We did run a diff on the .conf and .bu files, but it came back negative, though the file sizes were clearly different. The replacement fixed it, but as soon as I have some downtime I am going to search through that file to find the offender.

BTW, anybody have a way to get SA to not spit out poop rather than a real log file?

[vampyreapocalyps]

The build train root would be the directory that contains instadmg.bash as well as BaseOS, AppleUpdates, etc., directories? I am also getting No such file or directory errors when trying to create a dmg using instaDMG1.3. I’m sure it’s just me not doing it right.

First I [code]cd /Users/acadmin/Desktop/InstaDMG_1.3b/Instadmg/[/code]

then [code]sudo ./instadmg.bash[/code]

I copied the log file generated here:

“08-02-27
16:47:49
Creating disk image
created: /Users/acadmin/Desktop/InstaDMG_1.3b/Instadmg/DMG_Scratch/InstaDMG.08-02-27.sparseimage
Image mounted at /dev/disk1
I’m Running on PPC Platform
Started erase on disk disk1

Creating Partition Map
5% ..
Formatting Disk
10% ..100% ..
Finished erase on disk disk1

Finished partitioning on disk disk1
/dev/disk2 Apple_partition_scheme
/dev/disk2s1 Apple_partition_map
/dev/disk2s2 Apple_Driver_ATAPI
/dev/disk2s3 Apple_HFS /Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD
08-02-27
16:48:05
Beginning Installation from /Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD
I’m running on Tiger. Not checking for InstallerChoices.xml file
[b]installer: Error the package path specified was invalid: ‘/Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg’.[/b]
08-02-27
16:48:06
Beginning Update Installs from ./AppleUpdates
installer: Package name is Security Update 2008-001 (Universal)
installer: Installing onto volume mounted at /Volumes/InstaDMG.
installer: Preparing for installation…..
installer: Preparing the Disk…..
installer: Preparing Target Volume
#
installer: Preparing Security Update 2008-001 (Universal)…..
installer: Installing Security Update 2008-001 (Universal)…..
installer:
installer: Configuring Installation
##
installer: Writing files
#
installer: Writing files: 5% Completed
#
installer: Writing files: 14% Completed
installer: Writing files: 79% Completed
#
installer: Writing files: 89% Completed
#
installer: Writing files: 99% Completed
installer: Writing package receipt
#
installer: Finishing Installation…..
#
installer: Finishing Installation
#
installer: Optimizing System Performance…..
##
installer:
#
installer: The software was successfully installed…..
installer: The install was successful.
installer: Package name is iTunes
installer: Installing onto volume mounted at /Volumes/InstaDMG.
installer: Preparing for installation…..
installer: Preparing the Disk…..
installer: Preparing Target Volume
#
installer: Preparing iTunes…..
installer: Running Apple Mobile Device Support Installer script
installer: Running iTunes Installer script
#
installer: Running iTunes Access Installer script
installer: Running iTunes Phone Driver Installer script
installer: Installing Apple Mobile Device Support…..
installer:
installer: Configuring Installation
#
installer: Running Installer Script
installer: Writing files
#
installer: Running Installer Script
#
installer: Writing package receipt
#
installer: Installing iTunes…..
installer:
installer: Configuring Installation
#####
installer: Running Installer Script
installer: Writing files
#
installer: Writing files: 1% Completed
installer: Writing files: 2% Completed
#
#
installer: Writing package receipt
#
installer: Installing iTunes Access…..
installer:
installer: Configuring Installation
#
installer: Writing files
installer: Writing package receipt
#
installer: Installing iTunes Phone Driver…..
installer:
installer: Configuring Installation
#
installer: Writing files
installer: Writing package receipt
#
installer: Finishing Installation…..
installer: Running Apple Mobile Device Support Installer script
installer: Running iTunes Installer script
#
installer: Running iTunes Access Installer script
installer: Running iTunes Phone Driver Installer script
#
installer: Finishing Installation
#
installer:
#
installer: The software was successfully installed…..
installer: The install was successful.
08-02-27
16:49:24
Beginning Update Installs from ./CustomPKG
installer: Package name is Radmind Tools 1.11.1
installer: Installing onto volume mounted at /Volumes/InstaDMG.
installer: Preparing for installation…..
installer: Preparing the Disk…..
installer: Preparing Target Volume
#
installer: Preparing Radmind Tools 1.11.1…..
installer: Installing Radmind Tools 1.11.1…..
installer:
installer: Configuring Installation
installer: Writing files
#
installer: Writing package receipt
installer: Finishing Installation…..
##
installer: Finishing Installation
#
installer:
#
installer: The software was successfully installed…..
installer: The install was successful.
installer: Error the package path specified was invalid: ‘./CustomPKG/2/’.
08-02-27
16:49:29
Creating the deployment DMG and scanning for ASR
Rename the deployment volume
Disk renamed to OS-Build-08-02-27
Build a new image from folder…
16:49:30
created: /Users/acadmin/Desktop/InstaDMG_1.3b/Instadmg/ASR_Output/08-02-27.dmg
Disk /dev/disk1 ejected
16:51:28
Scanning image for ASR
Image to scan is ./ASR_Output/08-02-27.dmg
Checksumming partition of size 63 blocks…done
Block checksum: ….10….20….30….40….50….60….70….80….90….100
Reordering: ….10….20….30….40….50….60….70….80….90….100
08-02-27
16:51:54
Removing scratch DMG
”

What am I doing wrong?

[vampyreapocalyps]

Thanks for the info, Josh. I wasn’t aware that you had to log in to WGM as the owner or root in order to propagate.

I forgot to add that I originally discovered the problem because I wanted to configure ACLs on the volume.

We ended up configuring a brand new server for this client anyway. And given that I did not know any of the history of the old LDAP database, we elected to painstakingly recreate it from scratch. This worked. Permissions are now correct and ACLs are propagating correctly.

Hounddogco – Sounds to me like permissions were not preserved when the data was copied over. I usually use ditto or cp when copying large amounts of data. cp -Rv -p will recursively and verbosely copy data from one location to another preserving permissions (ACLs too). man cp for more info. There are a number of switches.

[vampyreapocalyps]

Thanks, Blake!

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