If you're not familiar with the Pymacadmin project - you should be. Nigel Kersten and Chris Adams have created an awesome tool called crankd that will let you execute Python code or shell scripts in response to system events.What does this mean to you?Do you have laptop users that are bound to OD or AD?
Whether you're a Mac Developer or Systems Admin, you've probably had to package up a bundle of files for deployment onto a number of machines. There are many ways to do this with just as many software options; it's easy to get confused and make some simple mistakes.
Well, everybody seems to be asking why the iPad can’t print files, yet.If you are looking for iPad printing solutions, you might have come across funny approaches like this one, but this article is about a serious solution.
Some tips on where the certificates you've set up with Server Admin are hiding on your system and the differences between 10.5 and 10.6 in this regard.Read on for where everything lives an what to do about it...
Migrating 10.5 iCal Server to 10.6 with group calendarsIn Mac OS X 10.5 Server, user and group calendars were available in iCal server. User calendars worked pretty well, but group calendars were a bit of a kludge. The biggest mess was the web calendar.
For those who haven't tried it, Nagios is quite a cool monitoring package that will run on UNIX (Ed. There fixed that!) variants, including OS X Server. John C. Welch wrote up an article on setting up Nagios with a Leopard Server which was my inspiration.
DNS can always bite you in the rear. in some case you run your own DNS server and you can correct the issues. In other cases, you're beholden to the powers that be to determine your fate. All is not lost, however, it is possible to run your own DNS proxy to override specific answers.
This article is the outgrowth of some work I did for a customer in recent weeks. Big companies are buying iPhones by the truckload to use in their architecture. These same companies have enough employees to make centralized iPhone activation a little unrealistic.
In Mac OS X 10.2.2 journaling was added to the Mac OS X Extended file system (I first read about it here on afp548). Journaling introduced a lot of great stuff, most notably improved resiliency to crashing.
The networksetup command is pretty useful for deploying static network information, which is otherwise tedious (to say the least). In Mac OS X 10.6 there are three major additions to networksetup that have not gotten a lot of attention yet.
