Blojsom error with Long Names in Tiger

The implementation of Blojsom by Apple for Tiger Server 10.4.x has one serious flaw, which users should be aware of and will lead to a close-down of the whole Blojsom context.

When Users add their blog in the /weblog/ context they should use their short names (with no spaces by default) or use long names which have no spaces.

The name which is added to the blojsom-users directive in the blojsom.properties file in /Library/Tomcat/blojsom_root/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/ is not escaped and thus the blojsom parser will choke on this entry.

So please check the file for spaces and replace those names with short names… There is no further implication to this…

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Enhancing your Mai?le? Performance

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’…

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Apple Remote Desktop Directory-based Authentication

One of the great gems of Apple Remote Desktop 2, and while it’s not hidden in the documentation, no one seems to have sung its virtues – until now.

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Migrating LDAP Users and Passwords to a Clean 10.4 Server

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…

Revised Password Server details in article Aug 11, 2005

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MacEnterprise.org NetRestore and ASR Webcast

The MacEnterprise.org group will be presenting a Webcast on NetRestore and ASR on Tuesday, August 16 at 1:00 pm EDT. Mike Bombich, an Apple Systems Engineer and author of many popular Mac tools, including NetRestore, will be presenting.

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Securing Tiger Server IMAP, POP, and SMTP with self-signed SSL

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 will cover my own implementation of SSL for mail services, however, it will probably be helpful to anyone wishing to secure mail services on their Tiger Server.

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CVS pserver launchd item for OS X 10.4

Inspired by the recent excellent launchd overview on afp548, I needed to set up a CVS pserver on our new Tiger Xserve box, migrating from an old Linux server.

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Bootable xrdiags CD

Have you ever wanted to run the Xserve Remote Diagnostics without setting up a netboot server? Well now you can. Full instructions can be found at the following web site.


http://homepage.mac.com/javaist/xrdiags.html

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My Life As An HPC Admin, Part 1

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! In reality we can all learn a bit from how an HPC (High Performance Computing) environment is managed to better streamline even the smallest computer setup – after all, more streamlined means more spare time to spend out of the office!

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Auto-checking your webmail config

SquirrelMail’s configuration script (/etc/squirrelmail/config/conf.pl) gives a handy piece of advice upon exiting. It recommends running SM’s built-in check script, by browsing to this address:

http://www.example_domain.com/webmail/src/configtest.php

This give a nice list of pass/fail info on your SM setup.

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