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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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Changing Chrome Working Directories on Mac clients

We're using Mac OSX 10.6.8 with NFS for home directories. Chrome seems to not like this, for a user who is logged in more than one machine. AFP was ok, but for other reasons we need NFS. It only allows you to start one instance. Ie, userA logged…
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Django, PostGIS, Postgres on Mac OS X Installation Issues

So the context Django1.4.x doesn't support postgis2.0 (https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/16455) Postgres9.2x doesnt support postgis1.5 (http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/UsersWikiPostgreSQLPostGIS) So to get the 3 playing together nicely, I…
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Completely remove Postgres on Mac OSX Lion

I'm trying to get postgis running on my machine. Running brew install postgis seems to have installed postgres 9.2.1 on to my machine. I would like to remove my previous version 9.1.2 to keep my environment clean. Running brew uninstall postgres…
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Make BIND use DHCP DNS as backup

I run BIND locally on my OS X machine, to enable wildcard Apache vhosts, which requires setting the DNS server for all network interfaces to 127.0.0.1. This works great, but means when I am on a network which uses an internal DNS server to route…
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Pound Ubuntu 12.04.1 - Private IP in apache logs. Should be Client's external IP. Help?

Have installed apsis Pound on Ubuntu Desktop 12.04.1. I am forwarding HTTP requests to an XServe (Snow Leopard Server) Apache instance, my problem is that I am getting local private IP addresses in the access_log, and pretty much all logs on the…
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dnsextd connection to server error

How can I correct these dnsextd errors in my system error log? dnsextd keeps starting and restarting via lanchd. Can I disable dnsextd via command line? dnsextd ConnectToServer: connect - Socket is not connected dnsextd ConnectToServer - retrying…
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Installed mongrel2 via homebrew, can't find config.sqlite

I hope this is the right site to ask this, I wasn't sure if here or superuser was more appropriate. I've installed mongrel2 via Home Brew, which installed it to: /usr/local/Cellar/mongrel2/1.7.5 However, I am stuck with configuration using m2sh as…
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Mac Server bizzare routing table

My mac routing table usually is very simple. I know it's based on bsd , but what's it doing or trying to do. My routing table is usually very simple however, the second one, default was point to link5 ? Is this normal, or is this IPV6 craziness at…
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Users annoyed by Windows Update count. Any count comparisons for OSX vs Windows vs Red Hat?

Not sure if this is really a Server Fault question, but I'll see how it goes... Since implementing Windows Automatic Updates my users are complaining about the number of updates. The main reason is that they're now being caught up on a years worth…
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How do I block requests to Apache on a network interface?

The problem: I have a local Apache instance on my Macbook Pro. I need it to listen on all network interfaces except en0 and en1 (basically, listen on lo and vnicX from Parallels). I know about "Listen *:80" but this is not a solution in this…
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Cleanest way to relocate User Profiles to seperate Raid drive with MAC OS X users RDP to W2K8R2

I have a company that WANTS to be windows but the Owner....loves his MAC so I now need to migrate all the C:/Users/? folders to the shared drive in a clean way. I have a few ideas of how to do it but was unsure if there was a best practice. The…
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Some SSH tunnels reporting connection refused between Linux VM and OSX Lion

I'm trying to connect to a set of services running on a Centos 6.3 VM guest (VMware Fusion 4) from a Mac OS X Lion host. I've setup .ssh/config script in /var/root: Host testbed Hostname testbed User Port 15922 # web server LocalForward…
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Deploy Apple OSX images from a Windows Server?

We are mostly a Windows shop but more and more Macs are being used. Is there any software that would run on Windows Server 2008 R2 that could be used to image Apple computers?
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After binding Mac to AD, first login successfully creates mobile account and logs in, after that next login locks AD account

Mac os x 10.7 and 10.8 AD Server 2008 R2 Binding using AD Plugin or dsconfigad -add mydomain -username myuser -ou "OU=Computers,OU=Sites,OU=Mysite,DC=mycompany,DC=com" Works fine. First login happens fine. Creates mobile account, no issues…
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Making a mac network user administrator

I am attempting to setup an open directory authentication system for a small iMac laboratory. The open directory authenticates network users properly and allows a login on the Mac system although the only way to make a network user an administrator…
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