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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How to send data processing to a different computer [closed]
So right now I have a Mac Pro 8 core and a Macbook Pro. My Macbook pro does have enough power to do some of the rendering processing i need to do. I was wondering how can i set it up so that i can ...
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Mid-2011 Mac Mini Server keeps dropping a disk from RAID, not sure what to do about it
The small business that I do sysadmin work for on the side uses a mid-2011 Mac Mini Server (running 10.7 Lion) as a fileserver and FileMaker database host. Its 2 750gb HDDs are RAID 1'd together, and ...
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Puppet and launchd services?
We have a production environment configured with Puppet, and want to be able to set up a similar environment on our development machines: a mix of Red Hats, Ubuntus and OSX. As might be expected, OSX ...
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How to split text from pipeline into N files of equal size?
I want to pipe a stream to split. I know how big will be the stream in bytes (very big, comes from network), I want split to create N files of relatively equal size, without splitting lines in half. ...
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Cannot get mod_rewrite to work on Mac OSX Mountain Lion
I have tried everything I can think of and it still doesn't work. I am trying to get the example code from Larry Ullman's Advanced PHP book to work. His instructions were a bit lacking so I had to do ...
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Installing OAuth on Mac Leopard
I'm trying to install OAuth on Mac 10.5. I've tried various online tutorials to no avail. I'm not using MAMP because I feel it takes too much control away from the user.
Does anyone have experience ...
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can't modify workgroup users mac OS X
We recently changed our file server host name to [something].local and installed XMAPP to run an intranet. The computer name remains the same. Everything works fine other than we can no longer manage ...
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Set default permissions for files created through FTP & SFTP on Mac OS X
I have 2 users on my Mac OS X Server, both in the group 'wheel'.
If User A creates a file through SFTP/FTP, User B can read the file, but not write to it, since the default file permission is 644, ...
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Use a Mac (10.8) as a remote log server
I'm trying to use my Mac Mini server as a remote log server for our router. I set the router to forward the logs to the server but I'm not seeing the logs anywhere in the console app.
Am I missing ...
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Remote deployment of OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 upgrade, not as a fresh install
Anyone have any ideas or suggestions (or know if its even possible) to remote upgrade a fleet of Macs from 10.6.8 to 10.8 remotely. I presume I can push the installESD through ARD, but I want it to ...
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Why do these ipfw delayed pipes have no effect?
I'm on OSX 10.7.5 and am attempting to add some latency to the connection to my personal domain with ipfw, using this article as a guide. Normal latency:
> ping -c5 troutwine.us ...
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How to get the 'file://' url for a file from bash CLI [closed]
Is there a simple utility that will print a file's URL to the console? An example (where url is said utility), given a file index.html in /var/www/index.html:
user@server$ url index.html
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Dereference symbolic link in OS X?
In OS X, how can I dereference a symbolic link to a canonical file name? (i.e. one starting with /.)
That is, I'm after the equivalent of GNU readlink's -f option:
kapow:~$ greadlink -f ...
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Wake OSX 10.8 over WiFi (WoWL - Wake on WiFi Lan)
I have a stack of Apple Mac minis running SSH servers for remote login. The problem is that I can't seem to get them to wake up. From what I gathered, as of Mac OSX 10.7 you required to have a boot ...
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How to share internet connection from VMWare (Xubuntu) to OSX host? [closed]
I'm running Xubuntu in VMWare, and long story short, I need to share its wifi-connection with the host OSX (10.7.5). How can I do this?
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Portable HDD with Ubuntu and Virtual Environments [closed]
Wondering if you could offer any advice.
At work I have a MacBook Pro, at home I have a Windows 8 Desktop. I would like to purchase a portable HDD that I can install a USB bootable version of Ubuntu ...
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PHP Composer Not Working On Mac [closed]
I have installed a bitnami mac stack mainly because I require at least PHP 5.4.7 version for my project. However, I have run into an issue with composer. This is the error I get when I run:
php ...
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What Is The Recommended Way To Backup OS X Open Directory?
We have recently bought a Mac Mini preloaded with Mountain Lion Server to use as an Open Directory master, and I'm not clear on how the data for Open Directory is supposed to be backed up.
We are ...
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launchd as watchdog
Can launchd on OSX (specifically Mountain Lion) be configured to work like watchdog, monitoring processes, after having launched them, to keep them alive? If so, how?
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Screen sharing stopped working Mac OSX 10.7.4
Yesterday, after installing Myob Account Edge accounting on my mac mini server, I lost the ability to screen share with it using the vnc protocol (Go menu > connect to server).
When I try to connect, ...
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Do you need to advertise an AFP service via Avahi for an Ubuntu Server to show up in OSX Finder?
I am only advertising an NFS share plus the "model", and I don't want to install extra services on the Server unless I have to, ie netatalk, as it is used solely for NFS exports.
Currently there is ...
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Nginx is not properly reading mime.types [closed]
I've been trying to configure a development server on OSX 10.8.2 with homebrew.
The server is working now and everything needed is installed (at least as far as I know).
I installed php54 --with-fpm ...
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Can't download driver for shared CUPS printer
I have an OSX Lion Server(OSX 10.7.5) acting as a CUPS(1.5.4) print server. I've added the network printer(Konica Minolta using Efi Fiery driver) and installed the appropriate drivers on the print ...
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Mac OS X Mountain Lion adding www to virtual host on localhost
I'm new to configuring my Mac for localhost so this may be a dumb question. I want to set up a virtual host so that http://localhost/domain points to http://domain.dev. In my Apache configuration, I ...
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How to setup CouchDB server?
Context: Mac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard
I have just installed CouchDB (using MacPorts). It runs fine locally on
http://127.0.0.1:5984/_utils/index.html
However, I can't quite figure how to make the ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Server - eth0 1Gbps NIC eth1 10Gbps NIC - all traffic using eth0?
UPDATE: (per request below)
serveradmin@FILESERVER:~$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 FILESERVER
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ...
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OSX Server - How to set environment variable on network user login
I have a group of users on my server, "Developers", and I would like an environment variable to be set for them whenever they login.
More specifically, when anyone in this group logs in, I would ...
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Route 'http://sitename.local' to 'http://localhost/site/name' [closed]
On my Mac I've got a local PHP site in the following directory: Library/WebServer/Documents/site/name
This is accessible from a browser by typing: http://localhost/site/name.
( Apache2, which is ...
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Mac OS X Client With Static DHCP Assignment Requests Wrong IP via Option 50
I have a number of Mac (and a few Linux) laptops getting DHCP from a Force10 layer 3 switch, the only DHCP server on the subnet. There's a global dynamic pool, and for each full-time employee's laptop ...
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Trouble setting up a Gopher server on OS X [closed]
I have been trying to host my own Gopher server under OS X (specifically, Snow Leopard), but am finding the process somewhat frustrating.
After trying (and failing) to install myriad supposedly ...
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Can't move large files, always get Input/output error after some time
I want to move a large file (hdd of a paralells vm, 81G) from one hd to another. After some time I get the error message: Input/output error. What can I do to move the file?
I checked source and ...
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OSX: Excessive NXDOMAIN response for dns-sd queries
I'm primarily in a OSX environment and I'm seeing a large number of NXDOMAIN responses from
our internal DNS servers. The queries that trigger these responses are what I believe to be mDNS/Bonjour ...
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Mac OSX server command equivalent for dhclient?
Is there an MacOS command that makes a dhcp request, and renews the old lease, drops it for a new one, or usefully reports errors or lack of response from a dhcp server?
This would both help fix ...
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MacOSX Server vpnd “CANNOT_LOAD_BUNDLE_ERR”
My office vpn server (a mac osx server) doesn't seem reliable. Clients loose connectivity to the server after 15-20 minutes or more of activity. Often the the first time authentication is re-tried the ...
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Apache + PHP via FastCGI
I'm running into some problems while attempting to run PHP via FastCGI in Apache. I have the FastCGI module loaded, but get the following error when attempting to load a page:
The requested URL ...
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OS X Server: How/where is the server app changing the Apache configuration?
When I view the "Websites" section in the OSX Server app, I am able to manage what appear to be virtual hosts. However, when I go to check Apache's vhosts configuration, there doesn't seem to be ...
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fink hangs while compiling Octave on OS X [closed]
Disclaimer: I'm totally new to Fink.
I'm trying to install Octave (Matlab open source clone) on Mountain Lion using Fink, following instructions at http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_MacOS_X It's a ...
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OSX Default Apache + MacPorts PHP?
If possible, I'd like to retain the default Apache installation and simply direct it to use a different version of PHP built/installed using MacPorts. Is this possible (and if so, is there a ...
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ssh login fails for user with empty password [closed]
How do you enable ssh login on OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) for a user with an empty password? I've seen others asking this question, and like me it's for the same reason: a parent who can't deal with ...
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CouchDB crashes at startup when path to config file has space(s)
I'm hoping to run CouchDB as a per-user Launch Agent on OS X. I'm using the coucdbx-core folder from the CouchDB Server.app as the base of my CouchDB deployment.
I'd like each user to have their own ...
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Determine whether OS X to Windows SMB traffic and password are encrypted
I connected to a Windows Server 2008 R2 shared folder from a Mac OS X Mountain Lion computer over the Internet using this command:
mount -t smbfs //user@server/path/to/share local_folder
Is traffic ...
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How can i access localhost XAMPP on Mac Osx from a windows 7 pc? [closed]
Im currently on a mac installed, ran and hosted a local website using xampp. i want to access my localhost website from my windows 7 computer and use it
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Time Machine On-site Backup on Enterprise Scale - Is this the right way to go? [closed]
So I am attempting to set up a backup infrastructure for my company. Because majority are on Macbooks, I want to use Time Machine system to do this. I need to set up the infrastructure to support at ...
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Looking for input on Windows+Mac Clients setup
I'm in the process of building the architecture for a new SMB. Some decisions have already been made, but I'm looking for some input from the community.
Basically, the fundamental problem I'm trying ...
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libcurl.4.dylib version on Mac [closed]
I installed nginx on my Mac (Snow Leopard) but it looks like I messed up with libcurl in process. Now when I try to use git I'm getting this error:
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libcurl.4.dylib
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How to have sshd write passwords associated with login attempts in logs?
I would like to gather common login/password pairs.
Currently, I have this in my system.log file:
sshd[9117]: error: PAM: authentication error for root from localhost via ::1
How can I have the ...
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Setup proxy with Apache 2.4 on Mac 10.8 [closed]
I have 1 application (Java) that running on my local machine (localhost:9000). I want to setup Apache as a front end proxy thus I used following configuration in the httpd.conf:
<Directory />
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How can I auto-mount a Mac OS X home directory using an openLDAP and netatalk Server?
I have openLDAP 2.6.x server with apple.schema and a netatalk 2.x Server. The netatalk can authenticate against the LDAP, so does my Mac as well. So I can authenticate my users on the Mac with the ...
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OSX server setup suggestions
I am looking into the possibility to setup an OSX server for my employees, and would like some input on what is the best approach to meet my needs, and perhaps some suggestions if I am moving in the ...
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Having XP VM use my host OSX ssh tunnel to connect to a remote site? [closed]
I am using Mac OSX and have Windows XP running on VMWare Fusion. I'm creating an ssh tunnel from OSX to a remote server, and then trying to have Windows XP use that tunnel (I actually use a program ...
