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Re: Rolling out new SSID and WPA2

2009-11-25T14:02:04Z

On 11/25/09, Perbix, Michael <PERBIX@...> wrote:
> Anyone have a scripted way to either add a new SSID with WPA2 key and remove
> an old one, or script the addition of an SSID with 802.1x Login Window
> profile and remove an existing SSID? I know that 10.6 can use the
> networksetup command, but 10.5 lacks the options to do this. Is there any
> other way? I need to either give a new SSID and associated WPA2 password
> and add it to the preferred network list and remove the one it is replacing,
> or set up 802.1x login window profile and remove the SSID it is replacing.

What about AppleScript? Try recording these events in the AppleScript
editor and see what it does.

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Rolling out new SSID and WPA2

2009-11-25T11:31:46Z

Anyone have a scripted way to either add a new SSID with WPA2 key and remove an old one, or script the addition of an SSID with 802.1x Login Window profile and remove an existing SSID? I know that 10.6 can use the networksetup command, but 10.5 lacks the options to do this. Is there any other way? I need to either give a new SSID and associated WPA2 password and add it to the preferred network list and remove the one it is replacing, or set up 802.1x login window profile and remove the SSID it is replacing.

Thank you.

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Re: MySQL install failure

2009-11-22T12:52:28Z

On 22-Nov-2009, at 13:24, Jared Earle wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Kurt Werle <kurt@...> wrote:
>
>> Is there some reason you're not just using the package install?
>>
>
> Agreed. The MySQL installer does the job perfectly.

Ah, well, I figured the package installer would not install dependencies.

downloading now (very slowly, only 200 KB/s)

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Re: MySQL install failure

2009-11-22T12:24:28Z

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Kurt Werle <kurt@...> wrote:

> Is there some reason you're not just using the package install?
>

Agreed. The MySQL installer does the job perfectly.

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Re: MySQL install failure

2009-11-22T12:15:16Z

On Nov 22, 2009, at 12:00 PM, macosx-admin-request@... wrote:

> When trying to do `port install mysql5` I get the following error

Is there some reason you're not just using the package install?

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.1.html#downloads

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Re: MySQL install failure

2009-11-22T04:49:56Z

On 22-Nov-2009, at 05:27, LuKreme wrote:
> I'm trying to setup a mythtv backend and I need MySQL.

After updating macports to the latest version (I missed 1.8.1 coming out) and making sure the ports tree was updated I get a different error:

/bin/sh: line 1: 80237 Done echo " crypto ssl engines apps test tools "
80238 Trace/BPT trap | grep " $dir " > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
/bin/sh: line 1: 80241 Done echo " crypto ssl engines apps test tools "
80242 Trace/BPT trap | grep " $dir " > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
make: *** No rule to make target `libcrypto.a', needed by `libcrypto.0.9.8.dylib'. Stop.

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MySQL install failure

2009-11-22T04:27:53Z

When trying to do `port install mysql5` I get the following error

Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_databases_mysql5/work/mysql-5.0.85" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --mandir=/opt/local/share/man --infodir=/opt/local/share/info --localstatedir=/opt/local/var/db/mysql5 --libdir=/opt/local/lib/mysql5 --bindir=/opt/local/lib/mysql5/bin --includedir=/opt/local/include/mysql5 --datadir=/opt/local/share/mysql5 --sysconfdir=/opt/local/etc/mysql5 --with-zlib-dir=/opt/local --with-openssl=/opt/local --with-extra-charsets=complex --with-federated-storage-engine --with-unix-socket-path=/opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock --with-mysqld-user=mysql --without-bench --enable-thread-safe-client --without-readline " returned error 1
Command output: dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libintl.8.dylib
Referenced from: /opt/local/bin/grep
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/opt/local/lib/libintl.8.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture

has anyone seen this and have a solution?

I'm trying to setup a mythtv backend and I need MySQL.

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Re: problem double-clicking shell scripts

2009-11-16T10:33:33Z

On May 22, 2007, at 0:13, Donkergroen bvba <donkergroen@...> wrote:

> I wrote a few shell scripts that do some stuff for me , that I keep
> in the finder sidebar.

Two things, what are the scripts' extensions and what are their
permissions?

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Re: Questions regarding setting up file sharing.

2009-11-10T21:35:10Z

On Nov 10, 2009, at 6:16 PM, Jay Beck wrote:

> I’m new to running MacOS X (v10.5.8) Server and I have a few
> questions about
> File Sharing setup.
>
> First here is what I want to achieve:
>
> 1) I have three users, each with a machine and their own ‘standard
> user’
> account.
> 2) I would like to create a file share as follows:
> 3) On the server, each user has his own account.
> 4) I’d like the users to access a share structured as follows:
> /Shared Items/Common (accessed by only my
> three
> users who can can old ‘r’)
> /Common/Lib (accessed by
> only my
> three users who can ‘rwx’ any folder/file starting at this root)
> /Common/Bus ( same as for lib)
>
> Questions:
> 1. On the server, who owns the folders and files that are put into
> Common
> and its sub directories?

Whomever created them or was set via chown.

> 2. If the owner is different from any of my user account names do I
> create a
> new ‘group’ on the server that this ‘owner’ and my on-server user
> accounts
> all belong to, and thus allow my users to access the files through
> their
> shared group permission?

You could.

A far better method is to use ACLs.

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Re: Airport Extreme Bandwidth Question...

2009-11-10T18:29:48Z

On Nov 10, 2009, at 1:33 PM, Alex Satrapa wrote:

> On 11 Nov 2009, at 07:33, Jerry LeVan wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have an idea of how many clients an Airport Extreme ( 802.11n)
>> can support before throughput starts to decline?
>
> Theoretically 50, is what I've read, your mileage will vary since one busy client can choke everyone else out, and with 50 clients on the network you won't be doing much in the way of transferring files.
>
> Alex

As a slight tangent to which the original subject may still apply, anyone have an idea why Apple haven't added a bandwidth-throttling option to their AirPort offerings? or is it in the latest models? It's a major sore point for me, and was almost a deal-breaker. Not that speculation on this mailing list will change anything, but I'm just curious whether the idea has some holes in it.

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Re: Airport Extreme Bandwidth Question...

2009-11-10T17:01:21Z

On 10-Nov-2009, at 13:33, Jerry LeVan wrote:
> Does anyone have an idea of how many clients an Airport Extreme ( 802.11n)
> can support before throughput starts to decline?

If one of them is me? One. :)

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Questions regarding setting up file sharing.

2009-11-10T15:16:27Z

I¹m new to running MacOS X (v10.5.8) Server and I have a few questions about
File Sharing setup.

First here is what I want to achieve:

1) I have three users, each with a machine and their own standard user¹
account.
2) I would like to create a file share as follows:
3) On the server, each user has his own account.
4) I¹d like the users to access a share structured as follows:
/Shared Items/Common (accessed by only my three
users who can can old r¹)
/Common/Lib (accessed by only my
three users who can rwx¹ any folder/file starting at this root)
/Common/Bus ( same as for lib)

Questions:
1. On the server, who owns the folders and files that are put into Common
and its sub directories?
2. If the owner is different from any of my user account names do I create a
new group¹ on the server that this owner¹ and my on-server user accounts
all belong to, and thus allow my users to access the files through their
shared group permission?

Thanks,

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Re: Airport Extreme Bandwidth Question...

2009-11-10T13:33:34Z

On 11 Nov 2009, at 07:33, Jerry LeVan wrote:

> Does anyone have an idea of how many clients an Airport Extreme
> ( 802.11n)
> can support before throughput starts to decline?

Theoretically 50, is what I've read, your mileage will vary since one
busy client can choke everyone else out, and with 50 clients on the
network you won't be doing much in the way of transferring files.

Alex

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Airport Extreme Bandwidth Question...

2009-11-10T12:33:13Z

Hi,

Does anyone have an idea of how many clients an Airport Extreme ( 802.11n)
can support before throughput starts to decline?

Thanks,

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Re: Some odd console errors

2009-11-09T16:12:09Z

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:41 PM, LuKreme <kremels@...> wrote:

> Noticed this after a reboot (caused by Nambu, but that's another story).
>
> 09-Nov-09 08:53:31 com.apple.kextcache[194]
> InternalModemSupport.kext does not declare a kernel dependency; using
> com.apple.kernel.6.0.
>
> First off, why do I have an InternalModemSupport.kext on my MacPro with no
> modem anywhere and can I get rid of it?

That kext is included with the OS regardless of hardware you install the OS
onto.

> Second, what is trying to access the nonexistent modem? Third, is this a
> problem at all?

Likely nothing is trying to access a modem. You simply have a device "nub"
in the system that is triggering a match of the kext and that kext is being
loaded far enough to do a device probe to see if the kext should claim the
device. While attempting to load the kext the kext loader notes that the
dependencies for the kext aren't fully correct.

Third, is this a problem at all?

No not a problem. Just an oversight on Apple's part of updating the
dependency information in the kext. ...or it is an old kext from an older
version of the OS that wasn't removed on an upgrade.

You can use kextstat and/or ioreg at the command line to see what kexts are
loaded, etc.

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Re: Some odd console errors

2009-11-09T16:05:58Z

Am 09.11.2009 um 22:41 schrieb LuKreme:

> Noticed this after a reboot (caused by Nambu, but that's another
> story).
>
> 09-Nov-09 08:53:31 com.apple.kextcache[194]
> InternalModemSupport.kext does not declare a kernel dependency;
> using com.apple.kernel.6.0.
>
> First off, why do I have an InternalModemSupport.kext on my MacPro
> with no modem anywhere and can I get rid of it?

Mac OS X installs software for all supported machines on every Mac,
so you can swap a drive from one Mac to another without a headache.
There are many dozens of unused kexts on your platter.

> Second, what is trying to access the nonexistent modem?

Likely, nothing. The message above doesn't indicate any access to any
modem, but a missing feature in that kext.

> Third, is this a problem at all?

No.

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Some odd console errors

2009-11-09T13:41:48Z

Noticed this after a reboot (caused by Nambu, but that's another story).

09-Nov-09 08:53:31 com.apple.kextcache[194] InternalModemSupport.kext
does not declare a kernel dependency; using com.apple.kernel.6.0.

First off, why do I have an InternalModemSupport.kext on my MacPro
with no modem anywhere and can I get rid of it? Second, what is trying
to access the nonexistent modem? Third, is this a problem at all?

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Installing images in computer lab from Mac Server or other Mac

2009-11-09T12:26:41Z

I am the admin for three Mac computer labs and would like to set up
Network installs to install a Mac image ( a whole image, not just a
particular software package) onto computers in my labs. It seems that with
Apple Remote Desktop, one can set up these lab computers to be booted from
another startup disk; but I don't just want to boot off another image, I
actually want that image installed on each computer in the lab remotely.

In looking at the System Image Utility on my Mac OS 10.4 server, it
seems I could actually install the images on the lab computers (running Mac
OS 10.5, and soon to be Mac OS 10.6) remotely, but there does not appear to
be a way to select which computers get the image other than using the model
filter where you can select (i.e., all the iMac Intel Core 2 Duos to receive
this image *or* all the Mac minis). Is there a way to send the image to a
remote computer based on IP address or some other way to differentiate more
than just model type? I need to put one image on 12 computers in a lab,
another image on the other 6 computers in the lab, etc. (I know this would
likely require two runs of the imaging utility, but I definitely don't want
the same image on *all* the iMacs.)

Am I missing something, or is this just not possible?

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Re: MacOSX-admin Digest, Vol 70, Issue 1

2009-10-11T19:57:43Z

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> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 14:33:15 -0700
> From: Reed Laughlin <reed.laughlin@...>
> Subject: Re: Default Sound Output - Lab Environment
> To: "Lian, Tian" <tianlian@...>
> Cc: "Mac OS X Admins $Omni-group Listserv$"
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> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Lian, Tian <tianlian@...> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was wondering whether it was possible to change the default sound
> output for a Mac Pro, for all future users (network login).
> >
> > Basically we have external speakers plugged into the back of our lab
> machines but the default sound for any new lab user is coming out of the
> internal speakers. It would be nice if the line out jack behaved the same
> as the front headphone jack but that is not the case.
> >
> > I've used programs such as Composer and fseventer to track changes to the
> system when a sound output selection is made, and the only file modified is
> the /Library/Preferences/com.apple.audio.SystemSettings.plist. However,
> there's two problems preventing me from just editing the contents of this
> plistt:
> >
> >
> > 1. The plist doesn't appear to be read at login, only written when a
> change is made. Making a change in the sound output reference in the plist
> doesn't reflect in the Sound GUI or in actual performance.
> > 2. The sound output preferences in this plist are by UID's. Which
> means even if I could change the default output in this plist and it were
> read at login, it would only apply to that particular UID and not to future
> lab users.
> >
> > As of now, I've resorted to using Workgroup Manager to initiate a small
> script at first login that opens the System Preferences, selects the sound
> pane, and then the output pane, and then selects the Line out option. While
> this is hideously obtrusive and completely visible to the logged in user, it
> does what we need and only recently started giving problems with the script
> not being able to find System Preferences.app by itself; but that's another
> issue and is still substantially better than plastering signs on the
> computers telling the user how to make the change themselves.
> >
> > So I will ask, is there a more elegant way to change the default sound
> output of a Mac Pro for a lab environment?
> >
>
> There is a command-line tool I saw mentioned on the Mac OS X
> Enterprise mailing list that looks like it would be at least a little
> less user-visible.
>
> http://code.google.com/p/switchaudio-osx/
>
> -Reed
>
>
>

You might try creating an Aggregate Device that contains all the Inputs and
Outputs for each machine and set that as the Default device in Sound
Preferences.

You have to set up the Aggregate Device in Audio Midi Setup.

There are a number of references. Google Aggregate Device setup.

Sorry I don't have an elegant way to do it.

Hope that Helps,

Tim Roberts
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Re: Default Sound Output - Lab Environment

2009-10-09T14:33:15Z

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Lian, Tian <tianlian@...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was wondering whether it was possible to change the default sound output for a Mac Pro, for all future users (network login).
>
> Basically we have external speakers plugged into the back of our lab machines but the default sound for any new lab user is coming out of the internal speakers. It would be nice if the line out jack behaved the same as the front headphone jack but that is not the case.
>
> I've used programs such as Composer and fseventer to track changes to the system when a sound output selection is made, and the only file modified is the /Library/Preferences/com.apple.audio.SystemSettings.plist. However, there's two problems preventing me from just editing the contents of this plistt:
>
>
> 1. The plist doesn't appear to be read at login, only written when a change is made. Making a change in the sound output reference in the plist doesn't reflect in the Sound GUI or in actual performance.
> 2. The sound output preferences in this plist are by UID's. Which means even if I could change the default output in this plist and it were read at login, it would only apply to that particular UID and not to future lab users.
>
> As of now, I've resorted to using Workgroup Manager to initiate a small script at first login that opens the System Preferences, selects the sound pane, and then the output pane, and then selects the Line out option. While this is hideously obtrusive and completely visible to the logged in user, it does what we need and only recently started giving problems with the script not being able to find System Preferences.app by itself; but that's another issue and is still substantially better than plastering signs on the computers telling the user how to make the change themselves.
>
> So I will ask, is there a more elegant way to change the default sound output of a Mac Pro for a lab environment?
>

There is a command-line tool I saw mentioned on the Mac OS X
Enterprise mailing list that looks like it would be at least a little
less user-visible.

http://code.google.com/p/switchaudio-osx/

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Re: timezone stuck on GMT

2009-09-21T18:08:01Z

unfortunately, /etc/localtime is ok, as are the /usr/...timezone files.

> sudo ls -l /private/etc/localtime
lrwxr-x--- 1 root wheel 30 Sep 21 06:40 /private/etc/localtime ->
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern
> date
Mon Sep 21 06:43:01 EDT 2009

switching to central time in sys.prefs>date&time>tz switches /etc/localtime:

> sudo ls -l /private/etc/localtime
lrwxr-x--- 1 root wheel 30 Sep 21 05:43 /private/etc/localtime ->
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central
> date
Mon Sep 21 05:43:41 CDT 2009

but the menubar clock stays on gmt; however, if i change the hour, the mb.clock
does change as expected. the finder also reports timestamps in gmt, so this is a
finder-level problem, not a bsd-level problem...

i mentioned that the problem started when my new battery crashed (by which i
mean the system crashed as if the battery had been pulled)-: with 20% charge
showing...and every time i restart, my clock is set to the unix
epoch...obviously i have a defective battery:-( but that shouldn't bollix the
timezone when i'm plugged in...
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secure web sites

2009-09-21T07:18:47Z

Is anyone out there having trouble getting onto secure web sites. I'm not able to get onto my banking site with my Apple computer. Apple tech support hasn't been able to figure it out. I'm wondering if it has something to do with thefact that I have not set up e-mail on this computer - I get it elsewhere. Any thoughts?
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Re: secure web sites

2009-09-21T04:53:33Z

Charles Dyer wrote:

> On 21 Sep 2009, at 10:18:47, Blackburn wrote:
>
>> Is anyone out there having trouble getting onto secure web sites.
>
> No.
>
>> I'm not able to get onto my banking site with my Apple computer. Apple
>> tech support hasn't been able to figure it out.
>
> Probably 'cause it's not a Mac problem.
>
>> I'm wondering if it has something to do with thefact that I have not
>> set up e-mail on this computer - I get it elsewhere. Any thoughts?
>
> 1 Why would you think that setting up email would have anything to do
> with a web browser problem?
>
> 2 which browser are you using? Safari? OmniWeb? Firefox? Opera?
> Something else?
>
> 3 which bank are you trying to connect to?
>
> 4 have you contacted the bank?
>
> 5 have you contacted your ISP?
>
> 6 what DNS service are you using?
>
> 7 why are you sending this to an _admin_ list?

You forgot to add, "What do you mean by trouble getting on to secure
sites?" Error message? Timeout? DNS? Have you tried other HTTPS sites?
Why would email have anything to do with secure socket sites, implying
you can log in and get web pages from them to get to a step that somehow
involves email?
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Re: secure web sites

2009-09-21T04:49:09Z

On 21 Sep 2009, at 10:18:47, Blackburn wrote:

> Is anyone out there having trouble getting onto secure web sites.

No.

> I'm not able to get onto my banking site with my Apple computer.
> Apple tech support hasn't been able to figure it out.

Probably 'cause it's not a Mac problem.

> I'm wondering if it has something to do with thefact that I have not
> set up e-mail on this computer - I get it elsewhere. Any thoughts?

1 Why would you think that setting up email would have anything to do
with a web browser problem?

2 which browser are you using? Safari? OmniWeb? Firefox? Opera?
Something else?

3 which bank are you trying to connect to?

4 have you contacted the bank?

5 have you contacted your ISP?

6 what DNS service are you using?

7 why are you sending this to an _admin_ list?
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Re: secure web sites

2009-09-21T04:29:58Z

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Blackburn <bblackburn@...> wrote:

> Is anyone out there having trouble getting onto secure web sites. I'm not
> able to get onto my banking site with my Apple computer. Apple tech support
> hasn't been able to figure it out. I'm wondering if it has something to do
> with thefact that I have not set up e-mail on this computer - I get it
> elsewhere. Any thoughts?

This is the wrong place to ask (this list is for Mac OS X Administration,
not basic tech support) but I'll offer some advice regardless.

If you're having a problem connecting to secure sites, the problem most
likely lies with your ISP, not the maker of your computer.

Call your ISP's hotline and get them to help.

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Re: timezone stuck on GMT

2009-09-20T17:25:45Z

On Sep 20, 2009, at 3:00 PM, airdrummer wrote:

> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:14:24 -0400
> From: airdrummer <airdrummer@...>
> Subject: timezone stuck on GMT
> To: Omni List <macosx-admin@...>
> Message-ID: <4AB62AB0.4020109@...>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> after a new battery caused a system crash (after resetting pmu/pram/
> nvram to
> calibrate the battery) all gui apps show GMT (menubar clock, finder
> file dates)
> even though the cli is using the correct tz.
>
> i've trashed all recommended plists, rebooted numerous times, but no
> luck (all
> users similarly affected)
>
> any suggestions?

Check this discussion for the possible solution.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8556251

Hope this helps.

Rick Davis
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resizing offscreen windows

2009-09-20T09:48:50Z

Hi, so often times I open up applications and the windows are so big on the
screen that I can't get to that tiny resize tab. I have tried all kinds of
options, but the only thing that works really is quitting the app and
restarting it untill the window is the right size. Any ideas how I can keep
this from happening?
Thanks!

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timezone stuck on GMT

2009-09-20T06:19:05Z

after a new battery caused a system crash (after resetting pmu/pram/nvram to
calibrate the battery) all gui apps show GMT (menubar clock, finder file dates)
even though the cli is using the correct tz.

i've trashed all recommended plists, rebooted numerous times, but no luck (all
users similarly affected)-: sys.prefs/date&time/timezone always opens in gmt, tz
changes are reflected in the d&t panel clock but not in the menubar clock.

seems like a classic permissions problem, but i've done the disk util
reset...any suggestions? 10.4.11, clamshell g3 (my traveling machine: gotta luv
that handle;-)

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timezone stuck on GMT

2009-09-20T06:14:24Z

SecurityAgent error

2009-09-19T23:47:38Z

I am getting thousands and thousands of these errors:

SecurityAgent[7336] kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetWindowGeometry:
Invalid window 0x5ff8

"Your search - SecurityAgent kCGErrorIllegalArgument:
CGSGetWindowGeometry - did not match any documents."

anyone?

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Re: OSX Server downgraded licenses?

2009-09-18T10:32:51Z

On Aug 8, 2009, at 10:17 PM, Ashley Aitken wrote:

>
> Will a license for Mac OS X Server 10.6 (Snow Leopard) work on Mac
> OS X Server 10.5 (Leopard)?
>
> I would like to buy a server license later this year for a PPC
> machine that will be upgraded to Intel sometime next year and would
> prefer not to have to buy two licenses.
>
> Of course, I am not asking whether the Intel-only Snow Leopard
> Server will run on a PPC machine, obviously it won't but whether the
> license will work on the PPC version or not.
>
> I guess the question can be asked more generally for any version of
> Mac OS X Server, i.e. will a license work with a previous version of
> the server software, but perhaps this architecture transition is a
> special case.

Why not buy a ADC Select membership?

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Re: File Previews

2009-09-17T15:50:13Z

On Sep 17, 2009, at 14:32, ML <mailinglists@...> wrote:
> Is there a way to turn of the finder doing 'file previews' as well
> as quick look and cover flow?

You can turn of the icon previews. As for coverflow and quicklook,
don't use them. ???
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File Previews

2009-09-17T13:32:29Z

HI All,

Is there a way to turn of the finder doing 'file previews' as well as
quick look and cover flow?

Best,

-Jason
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Re: DHCP on Leopard server

2009-09-09T15:44:49Z

On Sep 9, 2009, at 2:21 PM, Dan Shoop wrote:

>
> On Sep 9, 2009, at 11:06 AM, Milo Velimirovic wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I've got a 10.5.8 Xserve with two active interfaces (multihomed)
>> that I'd like to have provide DHCP service for devices on the en1
>> subnet only.
>
> One easy way to accomplish this is to set this up through the
> firewall. You should probably be assuring your configuration
> policies are implemented in your firewall anyway.

No need to drag the firewall into this. While a Firewall can and
often does function as a DHCP server that's not what I want and it's
not appropriate in this environment.
>
>
>> From the log messages I can see that DHCP is operational and
>> learning about the network by providing netmask and other info to
>> devices on the subnets connected to BOTH interfaces.
>
> As expected.
Yup.
>
>> DHCP distributes addresses to computers that I preconfigure in
>> static maps on en1,
>
> Static maps? Static DHCP addresses based on MAC address?

Yes. Look at Server Admin; Static Maps is what OS X Server calls the
tab where one statically assigns IP addresses based on MAC addresses.
>
>> but I also want to hand out addresses from a pool to unkown
>> computers that connect to this subnet, but this doesn't seem to work.
>
> What's not working, exactly? What are you observing and what's logged?

The DHCP server isn't handing out addresses from the range I've given
it to use for computers w/o a static map entry that are connected to
the subnet the en1 interface is connected to. Even though the en0
interface isn't mentioned in the DHCP configuration it hands out the
other data I mentioned above, netmask, gateway etc. to clients on the
subnet that en0 is on.

>
>> I've been through all the tabs in the ServerAdmin section on DHCP.
>> Where else should I look to configure this?
>
>
> You're looking for what in the Serveradmin tabs? You've asked quite
> a bit in all of the above.

I'm wondering if I've overlooked something in ServerAdmin. I've told
it to serve DHCP on en1 and not en0. I've filled in the range of
addresses to use as a pool. I've configured hosts that need static
assignments.

Unknown or new MAC addresses connected to the same subnet as en1
don't get an IP address assigned to them. I can certainly do more
digging in the server log files and in the log files on both a client
that gets its IP via a static map entry and a client that's not
mentioned in the static maps. The latter case is the one that doesn't
work right now.

One response on another list suggested dropping Apples DHCPd
altogether and installing the ISC DHCPd... I'm tempted.

Thanks,
Milo
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Re: DHCP on Leopard server

2009-09-09T12:21:12Z

On Sep 9, 2009, at 11:06 AM, Milo Velimirovic wrote:

>
>
> I've got a 10.5.8 Xserve with two active interfaces (multihomed)
> that I'd like to have provide DHCP service for devices on the en1
> subnet only.

One easy way to accomplish this is to set this up through the
firewall. You should probably be assuring your configuration policies
are implemented in your firewall anyway.

> From the log messages I can see that DHCP is operational and
> learning about the network by providing netmask and other info to
> devices on the subnets connected to BOTH interfaces.

As expected.

> DHCP distributes addresses to computers that I preconfigure in
> static maps on en1,

Static maps? Static DHCP addresses based on MAC address?

> but I also want to hand out addresses from a pool to unkown
> computers that connect to this subnet, but this doesn't seem to work.

What's not working, exactly? What are you observing and what's logged?

> I've been through all the tabs in the ServerAdmin section on DHCP.
> Where else should I look to configure this?

You're looking for what in the Serveradmin tabs? You've asked quite a
bit in all of the above.

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