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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.

Mac OS X consists of a Mach/BSD-based kernel, userland primarily based on FreeBSD, and additional frameworks (written in C, C++ and Objective-C) providing user interface and application-level services.

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OS X: Can't Resolve Windows Machine Names

I'm running a mixed environment at home and at work. My server machines are Win Vista, and I have a Unibody Macbook Pro running 10.5.7 On my mac, I can ping some home windows by name (If I use the full name such as stallion-main.local), but other…
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OSX - Full Disk Encryption

What options are available for OSX full disk encryption? Which of them is the best?
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OS X equivalent to ipconfig /registerdns?

Network is running a number of Mac's with Snow Leopard and having issues with DNS resolution (running Windows Active Directory environment with Windows DHCP handing out leases). Is there a way to get the Mac to force registration of the system name…
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How do I find where MySQL is loading its config from?

I've got a Mac OS X 10.4 box with MySQL installed as part of MAMP, and I want to edit its configuration file. I've tried searching the filesystem for a my.cnf, and all I can find is the example configs. It all runs fine, so is there something I can…
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How do I limit launchd log size on OS X?

As this answer suggested, I activated logging of a .plist file I have generated. StandardOutPath /path/to/logfile.log StandardErrorPath /path/to/another_logfile.log However, the log files are…
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Can someone tell me how to reliably backup over a network using TimeMachine, without a TimeCapsule?

I've got a huge server (running Ubuntu Linux) which has got a 2TB raid sitting there just begging for me to backup to it. I run netatalk to enable sharing via the AFP protocol to my Macs (all my client boxes are Macs pretty much) and had setup…
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Tell me the pros and cons of using WebDAV over SSL for file server access instead of SMB

In the organisation I'm in we have a mixture of OS X and windows XP. For years the Macs have also connected via SMB to the fileserver, however it's always been a bit flaky. On OS X it's prone to dropouts, and since we've upgraded our main server…
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postfix/postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running

I am running a fresh installation of macOS 10.12.1 with Server app 5.2. With or without mail service activate, i am unable to use postfix in command line. I am always getting this error when i try to reload postfix: postfix/postfix-script: fatal:…
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Automount smb drive on OSX

I have been trying to achieve smb drive automounting on OS Sierra but I am unable to do it properly. I hacked /etc/fstab which seems to work on this OS to the point that I am unable to force it to change ownership or chmod so other users than root…
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How to re-compile iconv on Linux (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS) with pseudo-charset UTF8-MAC?

I was googling around for hours to find a solution for my problem and I couldn't get it to work: I have to rsync a file structure on an ext4 formatted drive to a hfs+ formatted drive. Folders and file names can contain german Umlauts (äöüß) and the…
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Is it possible to ignore a missing PAM module?

I am configuring yubico-pam to enable passwordless sudo access using challenge-response from a Yubikey. The following works: # /etc/pam.d/sudo auth sufficient pam_yubico.so mode=challenge-response auth required …
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Best way to restrict some SSH users to publickey authentication only (disable password authentication)

I'm running Mac OS X Server.app on Yosemite and I have SSH enabled for users with the default settings in /etc/sshd_config (publickey and password auth enabled by default). However, I need to restrict the git local user to have publickey access…
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Your favorite website/forum for Mac OS X Server?

I'll get the ball rolling: http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=96 Apple Discussions http://afp548.com http://macenterprise.org http://krypted.com/ Charles Edge's blog http://www.bombich.com/mactips Mike Bombich (re:…
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Can a Mac with OS X 10.5 (Leopard) authenticate with a Windows 2008 domain?

I would like to have my MacBook Pro authenticate against Active Directory running on Windows 2008. A couple of years ago I tried to set this up between OS X 10.4 and Windows 2003 but I wasn't successful. A detailed step-by-step guide and a list of…
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How to get "tail -f" working on a file located on a Windows share

I'm using a Mac and I have mounted a Windows network disk in my file system using "Connect to Server" in the Finder. In the terminal when i do tail -f on a log file located on said network disk, tail is not updating the display when new lines are…
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