Stuck behind a draconian firewall and you need access to your Mac OS X Server? Read on to find out about the only tunnel on your Mac where you are not likely to be eaten by a grue...(Updated 8/16/2004, 2:03 PM EST)
After a software update and reboot together with some system tweaking, my personal webserver was not loading httpd successfully. I checked /var/log/httpd/error_log and found this: "[alert] mod_unique_id: unable to gethostbyname" followed by my hostname - actually, the hostname I had specified when setting up my server.
I was having some trouble with a large Open Directory installation recently - users were able to authenticate, but never saw their desktop - they got a "you are unable to log in at this time..." error instead, then were logged back out.
Are you on a Cisco Network - and need to know just what switch and port you are on? try the cdpr tool -
For those of us who either don't want to use sieve, or haven't been able to make it work properly--despite Mr. Rennich's best efforts to help--setting up procmail filtering is not too difficult.
Have you tried to run diskutil in single user mode only to be shot down by a 'lazy carbon values' error message? Read on to find out how to get diskutil to run in SUM on Mac OS X 10.3.x!
Backing up and restore can be a problem but I have recently found that xtar (free from Helios) is a wonderful solution to this problem.
I've learned almost everything I know about UNIX on my own, and even when I've been shown how to do something from the command line, troubleshooting often puts me on the path of self-instructed discovery.
Use the "net" command to create Admin users on your windows machines.
A script to back up your OD ServerThis will dump your LDAP, Password Server and Kerberos KDC databases to a backup folder. Get it in the downloads section here.
