Mac OS X is an operating system from Apple Inc. It was the successor to Mac OS 9 and here the 'X' means 10. Mac OS X is based upon the NeXTSTEP and OpenStep OSes developed in the 1980s and 1990s by NeXT Inc., which Apple purchased in 1996.
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Mac OS 10.8.3 Lion vmware virtual machine doesn't detects darwin.iso file to install VmTools? [closed]
I just installed MacOS 10.8.3 Lion in a vmware virtual machine, and I want to install Xcode but when I get to the CD/DVD IDE settings and select the darwin.iso file to install vmTools and click ...
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OS X - Can't ping tun0 - causing VPN to fail?
I'm using Tunnelblick to connect to an openvpn server on this macbook I have to use at work. The problem is it kicks me off the vpn every minute; seemingly because my box is not responding to ping ...
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DNS Help for Small Business - Access Inside and Outside Network
In the process of setting up an internal server for the first time (Mac OSX 10.8) and trying to understand how to setup the DNS service and whether I even need to provide it myself.
Today we have a ...
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Can't see SMB directory in Mac Finder when logged in [migrated]
I setup SMB to show a "Media" section
[Media]
path = /home/Share/Media
writeable = yes
browseable = yes
valid users = stef
guest ok = no
Currently, when I check the Shared entry ...
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Using authority-given .cer file to login on remote servers on OS X
A few months ago I bought a certificate from a popular certification authority (Certum). I used it to sign emails, but today the admin at my work asked me to connect to our main server via ssh. He ...
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SSH to Mac OS X 10.7
I am trying to SSH from my work computer (Ubuntu) to my home computer (OSX 10.7) that is behind a Belkin router and have so far been entirely unsuccessful.
Here are the steps I have taken so far
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How to build a Mac OSX 10.8 “clean” NetInstall (not restore) image? [closed]
I have purchased and installed Mac OS X 10.8 on my MacBook Pro.
With some easy steps or even an automatic tool I could easily create USB bootable media from the "Install Mountain Lion" app that I get ...
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1answer
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Local data consistency issues with Large Exchange Mailboxes, Apple Mail, Multiple Connections to same account
I have a longstanding situation with a client who has a tremendous amount of email. To make matters worse, the bulk of the message content and attachments are text files. So, we're talking about a lot ...
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access local server from mobile [closed]
I'm working on a mac (OSX) and I am trying to access my local server via my android. On my development machine, I can access localhost in the browser just fine. I have used ifconfig in my terminal to ...
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What does ERROR | __50-[MCXDLauncher(Private) startNetworkChangeThread:]_block_invoke_0 | Unable to GetMCXAgentPort mean?
I get the following message repeatedly in a syslog from a Mac OS X computer:
SecurityAuth, loginwindow[...]: ERROR | __50-[MCXDLauncher(Private) startNetworkChangeThread:]_block_invoke_0 | Unable to ...
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launchd allowed me to source my .bash_profile and run rvm but now after an os x upgrade this is broken
In the past (March 2013) I was able to run this plist file and source my .bash_profile to get rvm to load as a function and pull in my default ruby 1.9.3 but now the process just uses the system ruby ...
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load balancing or route par app on OSX
I'm searching if there is a software's solution on OSX to use 2 different routes (10.0.0.1 & 10.0.0.101 ) with a load balancing effect or specify a route for each application.
For example : ...
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1answer
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XenServer xe CLI on OSX [closed]
Is there a port of the XenServer/XCP xe command-line tool to Mac OS X? Or, alternately, if this tool is open-source, what's the easiest way to get access to the source?
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How best to backup 1-3 os x computers using time machine to a Raid to an offsite backup? [closed]
I need to setup a proper backup system for my macs. I had just been keeping all my client work on my local hard drive and then just used Time Machine to back that up to an external USB drive. A single ...
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OS X file system accessibe by Windows 8 in a nested VM (ESXi VM inside Fusion VM) [closed]
I've set up a lab in OS X 10.8.3 using Fusion 5 to host ESXi 5.1 which in turn hosts Windows 8. I noticed that the OS X primary disk is available in Windows 8 as a network resource with r/w access. I ...
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Upgraded from Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04.2 LTS and can no longer print via CUPS [migrated]
I have had CUPS running on a Linux box at home since Ubuntu 10.04 (if not older). The printer is a networked laser printer. CUPS on the Linux box talks to the printer and various other machines talk ...
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Samba share not working for osx users, but fine for windows users?
Using webmin on a linux box I setup a few samba shares. I can access them fine using any windows machine, but when I connect to the server using osx, finder prompts me for a username and password then ...
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Disable ipv6 autoconfiguration on a specific interface in OSX
Is it possible, either via the command line or C code using the sysctl/fcntl/etc. APIs, to disable IPv6 router solicitations, router advertisement acceptance, etc. on OSX for a specific interface? It ...
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Safari on MAC OS keeps asking for client certificate while SSLVerifyClient none
I have a website running on Apache 2.2 /openssl 1.0.0d. And I'm using a certificate issued by a trusted CA.
Everything works fine on all browsers, except safari on MAC OS, when the user tries to ...
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Syncrepl support in Mac OSx 10.8 OpenDirectory
From Ryan Faas's article Apple's OpenDirectory does support overlays but I can't seem to enable the syncprov or accesslog overlays. Adding following block to slapd_macosxserver.conf turns the server ...
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Configure Mac OS X Lion firewall for port forwarding?
My questions are:
Do I use "pf" or "ipfw"?
How do I forward traffic from port 80 (HTTP) on the external interface (en0) to port 8080 on localhost (127.0.0.1)?
How do I allow traffic on port 22 (SSH) ...
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Mac OS X Network Accounts Applications Stop Working After Logout
Hey Gurus of Serverfault!
I've encountered an issue with the network accounts on our OS X based system here. We are running OS X Server (Mountain Lion) with network accounts connecting to this local ...
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Adding a TXT DNS record to OS X Server
How would I add a TXT record to a DNS zone in OS X Server.app? There's an option for adding a Service Record that happens to have a Text field, but there's also a required Service Type field that I'm ...
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Nagios Check - Scripting
If I hard code the process I want to find and run script a
Script A
#!/bin/bash
PROCESS=/System/Library/Frameworks/QuickLook.framework/Resources/quicklookd.app/Co
number=$(ps aux | grep $PROCESS | ...
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VirtualDocumentRoot & localhost
Currently this is my httpd-vhosts.config file
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
VirtualDocumentRoot /Users/Gabri/Sites/%2/%1/build
</VirtualHost>
However I would like to have ...
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Slow WiFi connection on MacBook Retina with strong signal
I've just connected MacBook Retina '15 (OS X 10.8.3) with Dlink DIR-412 router (Firmware Version : 1.12WW) and noticed strange thing, I'm getting transmit rate 73Mbps while old asus laptop is getting ...
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Granting access to a virtual machine?
I have an internal website running on IIS 6 that denies access to everyone except for a few select IP addresses. This is set by going to "Directory Security -> IP addressees and domain name ...
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pecl_http : Apache is unable to load http.so
I'm using MAMP 2.1.3 with Mac OS 10.8.3.
I've just installed the pecl_http extension with Mac Ports + PECL.
The http.so exists and is in (correctly set in php.ini) :
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Difference between ulimit, launchctl, sysctl?
When managing the limits of the operating system (specifically OSX), what is the difference and overlap between the functionality and history of these three tools:
ulimit
launchctl, launchd
sysctl
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Web server not accessible to other systems on LAN
I'm trying to test a web site being served via nginx on my Mac. Things work just fine accessing the server on that same Mac, but when I try to get to it from a couple of Windows machines on the same ...
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1answer
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launchd PathState usage
I am trying to use PathState to start and stop a daemon on Mac OSX. It start when I create a file called /var/cache/myjob/run. However when the file is removed, the daemon doesn't stop again.
How do ...
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Mounting NFS shares (Mac OS X) on Ubuntu VirtualBox VM gives Permission Denied
I'm trying to mount a directory shared from a Mac OS X machine on an Ubuntu machine, and it just gives me a permission denied error:
$ sudo mount -v -o vers=3 10.0.2.2:/Users/stefanopalazzo/share ...
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You are unable to log in to the user account “user_name” at this time
I have a Mountain Lion server and two Mountain Lion clients.
I have two network users.
From one of the clients I can log on using either of these two accounts, from the other I cannot log using ...
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How to correctly set up network names on Mountain Lion?
I am from a Linux background with a fair amount of Windows knowledge too but I find myself in the curious position of having to look after someone's macbook air. I am totally new to OSX.
I would ...
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Debugging OSX airport wifi connection [migrated]
I just got a preconfigured Macbook Air (with 10.8.3) that refuses to connect to my house WiFi and gives an uninformative "connection timeout" message. The router/modem is working, every other device ...
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Error when using Chef on OS X: “bash: chef-solo: command not found”
I have chef installed on my local machine: Mac OS X 10.8.3
I also have chef installed on a remote server: Ubuntu 12.10 x64 Server
On the local machine, when I try to execute a command using ssh ...
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1answer
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Apache2 mod_proxy modifies content-type for some reason
I am using a local proxy using apache2 to do some development work (OSX 10.8):
SSLProxyEngine on
ProxyPass /app https://my.server.org/app
ProxyPass /web https://my.server.org/web
Everything works ...
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0answers
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Installing Munin node on OS X [closed]
I've got a Munin system setup and working for Linux and Windows clients, but I cannot find a good path to installing Munin on OS X clients, can anyone point me to a guide that'll show how to do it, or ...
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1answer
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Using both expanders in HP D2700
I am considering purchasing an HP D2700 for use with SSDs (Samsung Pro 840's), for use in realtime playback of high resolution images. The D2700 has two I/O modules (which I assume are the actual SAS ...
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1answer
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Mac server architecture and synchronization
I'm currently for an reliable and robust solution to make a bidirectional synchronization for the file between two mac os x server (recent versions). The folder is a corporate architecture of ...
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saving issues osx 10.8 adobe photoshop on server smb
we get several saving issues while saving files in Adobe applications CS 6 (especially in Photoshop) on a Windows Server 2003 Share connected via SMB.
Unfortunately the problems aren't able to be ...
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How to rsync to a server using ssh keys
I'm running on a Mac, and I want to set up a crontab to rsync from my VPS on a weekly basis to grab some backup archives. I'm using ssh keys (no passwords allowed on the VPS), and normally I can ssh ...
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Is it possible to detect Mac-OSX machines serial number within a BOOTP request?
We have a database that contains serial numbers of all the macs in the company, and which associate them to different OSX versions (10.6, 10.7, 10.8, ...).
When netbooting, I currently use the same ...
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Samba shares empty and not writeable when browsing OS X 10.8
When I mount a Samba share it works, but it doesn't show me any files, even though they exist on the server, I also cannot write files to the share either.
The server is CentOS 6.4, running Samba. ...
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How do I write an rsync exclude for a directory tree with names containing spaces?
I'm trying to exclude a directory tree as part of an rsync command embedded in a bash script approximately like this:
$OPTIONS="-rl --exclude 'Some Parent Directory/Another Directory'"
rsync ...
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OSX 10.8.3 creating/editing files on Windows 7 share creates weird blocking account [closed]
I have a share on a Windows 7 machine that acts as a server. We have several people on Macs that need to create/modify files on this machine. When one of these people creates a file on the share ...
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Autofs Ubuntu mount OS X NFS
I've configured OS X to export a directory that I want ubuntu server to be able to access. I can mount the NFS export manually using mount host:/path/to/export /mount/point but autofs wont do so.
# ...
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403 Forbidden on localhost:8000 [closed]
Ok, I don't get what is happening here....
I am running some web services with Django on port 8000 locally.
My desktop application that connects to the web services locally, does a GET request and ...
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2answers
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Syncing Google Apps Directory Information to Mac Contacts over cardDAV
The Problem: Our company runs Google Apps. Some users prefer to run native applications on their laptops, such as Mac Mail, Mac Calendar, etc. If you are not logged in to Gmail, you will not be ...
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Permission denied (publickey) connecting Amazon EC2 via SSH
When I'm trying to connect via SSH. It was ok, but after some manipulations by me :-[
I've downloaded keypairs, copy to .ec2, chmod to 600,
ssh-keygen -y -f ~/.ec2/gsg-keypair > ...
