So a while ago we put together an article on tuning your AFP server for OS X Server. I'd been promising part #2 for a while, just to cover some odds and ends, but there has been a major development which made a lot of that work redundant, namely the release of the Universal version of OS X Server 10.4.7.
No article I could find on the web touches the "PostgreSQL-PAM" topic specifically for Mac OS X users, so I decided to put all the pieces together.
Port Trunking, Trunked Ethernet and Bonded Interfaces are some of the terms that get thrown around for what is more commonly known as 802.3ad.
In part 1 of the series, I covered the reasons why you would want to separate a single server into multiple servers. Now we move on to the nitty-gritty: how do you actually accomplish the task? Goal: Set up a separate server in the DMZ that handles web serving and external mail transport.
A perl script to read individual user spam and ham folders. After I got Bayes learning to work correctly in SpamAssassin, I wanted a more convenient way for users to mark messages that were incorrectly classified.
Some thoughts on getting a small office network setup. Read on for the beginning of a four part series on configuring some basic connectivity on your server.
Filling in the holes where the system lags a bit, here's a quick way to get e-mail quota warnings out to your users So I got bitten this morning by a user who hit their IMAP quota limit and didn't get any alerts from Mail.app about it, possibly because he reckoned he hadn't quit Mail.app or logged out of his machine for about a month...
From looking at the mailing lists and discussion boards, you'll see that a reasonable number of people seem to be having problems with their AFP servers under OS X Server 10.4.x, particularly under heavy load with network home directories, and particularly in terms of stability.
Verifying large volumes can be a real pain, especially on systems that need to be up as much as possible. Here's some ideas on how to make this as painless as possible.
Mac OS X Server has tools to monitor trends in network traffic and look at your log files, but I've always wanted easy to read, detailed stats for my web server. AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically.
