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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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Printer on OS X not printing across VPN subnets

I have an interesting situation where I have a two servers that connect two subnets via a VPN. One side is 192.168.0.0/24 and the other is 192.168.1.0/24. Communications appear to be working okay. I can ping fqdn's on each side (each side's…
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Programatically obtaining operating system version data in Mac OS X

In Red Hat the file /etc/redhat-release contains the operating system version data (such as "Red Hat release X.X (Final)"). Is there any similar mechanism in Mac OS X that can be used programatically to get the operating system version data (such as…
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OSX: ssh-agent caching passphrases....but when cleared?

I have a ssh RSA key in a client OSX 10.9.4. The SSH server is ubuntu. Everything works OK, but the problem is that my OSX ssh-agent seems to be caching the passphrases. The first time I ssh, it is asked. Next time, it is not, and I directly log in…
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Ideal Linux/BSD distribution to emulate Mac OS X

I've recently moved to a Mac OS X workstation. I am doing my best to stick to the command line, but am wary of corrupting my system. Is there a BSD distro that I can throw in a VM to experiment with? As far as I know, OpenDarwin has…
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Are ACLs for share points in OS X 10.6 fixed

Share points are 'broken' in OS X 10.5 in that inherited write permissions always take precedence over ACLs at the sharepoint itself. OS X AFP shares and access Does anybody know if this is fixed in 10.6?
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resolving DNS issues behind firewall on OS X Server

I have a problem that has recently broken single sign-on with our Mac clients (10.5 & 10.6) to an OS X Server (10.5). hosts seem to resolve on clients & server both forward & reverse. subnet is behind firewall and using 10.0.1.xxx. preliminary tests…
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Ubuntu server PPTPD with OS X clients Problems

I'm trying to get a PPTP server running on a ubuntu server, but I've run into some issues with it. I followed this guide on how to set up pptpd on my server, and everything went smooth, but when I try to connect with my mac, it gives me this…
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Mini mac server returning:- attribute "entryCSN" index delete failure

I have an Open Directory(OD) server running on OSX 10.8.5. I have software connecting to it (a web interface) which is searching the LDAP for users. So I run the query on the web app, and look in "Server" on the server to check out the Open…
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Run a script via .plist on login as if in a specific directory

My .plist file calls a shell script but the script fails because it references other files in the same directory as the script. Thus the script only runs successfully when I 'cd' to the correct folder. How can I get the .plist to have this happen?
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Unable to locate DHCP Server

I am supporting a mixed Mac OSX and Windows environment. There is a rogue DHCP Server which seems to be providing the IP-addresses to Mac systems on the network. I have used both ZenMap and Wireshark to locate this IP-address and suspected Mac. The…
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Obtain an offline image of an Xserve disk

We have an Intel Xserve with Mac OS X 10.4. It seems to have been infected by a virus. We want to obtain the disk image without booting into the OS. Preferably, we would want to boot via a USB disk or dongle. Any suggestions?
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Local DNS fails when another interface is connected

I have a LAN with a Linux server running BIND for addressing of local computers. When a workstation is connected to the local network (where there is no Internet access), I can successfully address devices using hostnames without any problems: $…
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Varnish installer cannot find PCRE when it is already installed

I am trying to install Varnish-Cache 4 on my Mac OS X 10.9.3. But I get this error: checking for PCRE... no configure: error: Package requirements (libpcre) were not met: No package 'libpcre' found Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH…
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OS X Mounting Samba shares using logon script - Using Open LDAP

Is it possible to mount a Samba share at logon using a standard OS X logon script, when using an Open LDAP directory for authentication? Obviously you can get the username from the $1 variable, but can we temporarily capture the password to mount…
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Accessing VirtualBox with libvirt from a guest

I have installed libvirt on OSX, and from outside a virtualbox I can access it using virsh no problem. However, I want to access it from inside a guest, and this is giving me the hopelessly useless error: [root@foreman01 ~]# virsh -c…
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