Recently I was writing a shell script in which I needed to create a disk image, mount it, write to it, and dismount it. The command in OS X that manages disk images at the command line is hdiutil, and the man page is rather long.
As the networking infrastructure guy, I occasionally have the need to update hardware or backup settings using the TFTP protocol.
Piecing together all the information in the tiger server docs is a pain. I created these two pages to show people how to setup Tiger server as an Open Directory Master and share out Home folders. Ed. Note: We have some more in-depth versions of this in our downloads section, but these are good overviews for the impatient.
A while back Joel put up a script to backup the key components of the mail store for 10.3 server. With Tiger, we got the added benefit of AMaViS/ClamAV/SpamAssassin so I made a few changes...
I wanted to have a consolidated list where myself and others can conveniently find digital asset management solutions. Specifally at the moment, this list excludes records management and web content management software. The software listed varies between business- and enterprise-class scalability and flexibility.
Getting syslogd to be network aware in Tiger While we have an earlier article on this, it was only for 10.3. So here's an updated version that will walk you through using syslogd with launchd.
So, you like the little slider for Spam in Server Admin? It's pretty cool, but there's a bunch of stuff you can do to 'enhance its performance'... Read on for more...
It was a dark and stormy afternoon when Ian (maccanada) and I sat down to fight the beast that is LDAP migration from an up and running 10.3 Server to a brand new, out of the box, 10.4 server. Lucky for you, the battle was won by us, and the gory details of the fight will lay themselves out for you as you read on...
One of the great new additions to Tiger Server is the ability to easily create self-signed SSL certificates to secure services such as LDAP, Jabber IM, and mail.
This article, the first of an intro to HPC, could also be called, "Centralized Scripting for Workstation Management", so don't let the scary HPC title put you off!
