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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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Dynamic Global Hostname and nsupdate do not send update to authoritative nameserver

I'm trying to do DDNS. I have two Apple products: an Airport Extreme and a Macbook Air, and I want to update my DDNS server via the "Dynamic Global Hostname" feature. I setup DDNS in the cloud (BIND), and via my local Ubuntu machine (nsupdate…
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Mac computer names conflicting with Windows computer names

A few months ago, we had an issue where an employee (for god knows what reason) decided to rename one of the conference room Mac minis to the same name as one of our domain controllers. The result was that the domain controller was demoted to a…
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How can I proxy requests to a specific IP to a different IP on OS X?

On OS X how can I setup a route so that when I make a request to 10.0.0.1 it is redirected to localhost? Right now I can do curl localhost:3000 and get back a blob of HTML from my running node web server. I'd like to be able to do curl 10.0.0.1:3000…
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Dovecot logs showing user disconnected

So one of my users has an issue with connecting to the IMAP server. She's on OSX and has tried setting up Mac Mail and Thunderbird. In both cases the client times out when trying to connect to the server. I thought initially it was an authentication…
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Port 445 open to Mac but closed to Linux?

I'm running a Windows 7 Ultimate, and I'm attempting to set up file sharing (SMB). I have a Linux system which can't seem to connect. When running mmap in Linux to scan port 445, I see that the port is filtered (closed). Yet, on my Mac, I can…
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rsync on OS X changes folder's group name to _lpoperator

Here is how to demo the problem: Grab Terminal on OSX, and run cd ~ && mkdir abc && ls -l ~/ Here is the output about folder "abc": drwxr-xr-x 2 justin staff 68 Jan 4 20:20 abc The group name can be seen as "staff". rsync a file or folder…
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How can I replace all instances of a specified string in a text file with another string?

I have a file a.txt. I would like to replace all instances of "1.6" with "1.5" in that file, overwriting the original file.
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2006: MySQL server has gone away

I am getting 'Lost connection to MySQL server' and '2006: MySQL server has gone away' errors so frequently that the server is unusable. There are questions related to this issue, but none that apply to my situation; for instance, there is no…
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VMWare Fusion: Bridged Network Using a Bonded NIC

I'm attempting to set up a virtual machine in VMWare Fusion (2.0.5) but am having issues getting bridged networking to start. Whenever I start a virtual machine that I wish to use bridged networking I am given the following error: "The network…
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What is "best practice" for reinstalling Mac OS X Server

Since you can't "Archive And Install" on Leo Server the way you can on Leo Client - what's "best practice" for backing up/reinstalling without losing your data/ldap/service settings? I'm aware of the Backup items in the Server Admin menu, Archive…
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Permissions on Windows share being accessed from a Mac - Access denied but should not be

I have a weird problem for some Mac users accessing a Windows (2012) share where the folders are 'locked down' i.e users can not create folders, only files. In essence they have all permissions except create and delete folders (and of course full…
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Concurrent MySQL requests are really slow on OS X

The backend of one of our web applications uses MySQL on Linux. It all works very well and fast. But I also do a lot of my development on OS X, and have the complete live environment mimicked there. It all works correctly, but when several MySQL…
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OS X Server VPN service starts httpd processes

I'm using OS X Server 4, and when I enable its VPN service, two httpd processes start, which locks up port 80. I run an Apache server separate from OS X Server, so when I enable VPN in OS X Server, I can't start up apache on port 80 anymore. Is…
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PF rule for Continuity

So it looks like the Continuity on OS X 10.10 creates network interface on the fly (utun2 here) and my PF blocks it, so that I can't make/answer calls. I'm not an admin, just use the IceFloor for PF config. Do you know what's the easiest way to…
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OS X bootp acts differently for different clients

I'm working on an OS X NetInstall environment, and having trouble with the BSDP portion. I have some hosts on the same subnet (build) as the server, and other hosts on a different subnet (try). Netboots of all hosts work fine if they are initiated…
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