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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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Sync local folder with WebDAV

I have a local folder on my Mac that I want to sync with a WebDAV server. There are a lot of files in my folder. After I edit some files or add/remove folders, I want to be able to sync the changes to the WebDAV server, ignoring what it is on the…
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Macmini running osX 10.7 when I log out it says connection to xxx closed

When I log out of my macmini server using terminal it says "Connection to www.kannhost.co.uk closed" www.kannhost.co.uk is one of the domains that I host and have set up using vhosts.php How can I change the name of the server to show the…
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Adobe Reader won't launch when logged into network user accounts (Open Directory)

I have Adobe Reader 9 installed onto the local hard drives of my workstations. The application launches from local user accounts and functions as expected. When users are logged in with a network user account Adobe Reader unexpectedly quits at…
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Startup and Shutdown JIRA automatically on OS X

Just wondering what the proper OSX way to start up and shut down a (standalone) JIRA installation on automatically (on power on and shutdown respectively) would be please? Would prefer to avoid editing OSX startup scripts manually, but willing to…
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Can't pass path to shell script

I'm new to OSX, and don't use the commandline that often. I'm trying to use a script to do some automatic deployment, but when I execute the script it is looking for a directory. I tried: sh myscript.sh '/Users/profiles/Desktop/Development' sh…
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Apache virtualhost - Mac OSX 10.7.3

After upgrading to Lion, all my virtualhosts stopped working. They redirect to "It works" main apache page on my device for some weird reason. Example: /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 myhost.com DocumentRoot…
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Remove MySQL (from Apple) on OS X Server Lion

I have a Lion Server (upgraded from a Snow Leopard Server), which still has the Apple provided MySQL 5.0 server [mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.92, for apple-darwin10.0 (i386)]. Without out rebuilding the entire box, I'm trying to determine how to…
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Mac OS X Lion BIND DNS settings for local site not working

I'm trying to set up a web app hosted on my mac in which people on my network can access via http://custom.local/ I can access it on the mac since I have set up an Apache VirtualHost and in /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 custom.local I ran $…
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Update Snow Leopard Server under VMware Fusion

Since the Snow Leopard support was dropped in VMware Fusion 4.1.1, I had to resort to Snow Leopard Server to QA software on Snow Leopard (since my desktop is running Lion). Installing developer seed of SL Server was pretty straight forward, but for…
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Error encountered when setup Github on Mac “Write failed: Broken pipe”

I have been facing this annoying error when trying to setup Github on Mac, OS version is Lion. Basically, I followed the steps as mentioned at this URL: http://help.github.com/mac-set-up-git/ I always stuck at the step of executing this command "ssh…
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Can you downgrade Java on a Mac?

I'm testing Snow Leopard for our IT team in preparation for it's actual launch. I'm currently running seed 10A394, which comes with Java JDK 1.6. I found one Java desktop application that no longer runs under Snow Leopard, the app won't even start.…
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RDC to Windows 2000 Server from OS X 10.6.8 immediately crashes

I'm using Remote Desktop Connection 2.11 on Mac OS X 10.6.8, trying to connect to a Windows 2000 Server. I type in the IP (local) and it warns me that it can't verify the identity of the computer, I hit "Connect", it opens a black window (as if it…
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pgbench install?

I'm running postgres 8.4 but pgbench does not appear to be installed on my Mac. I've looked but I am unable to find anywhere where I can get a copy of pgbench to augment my postgres install. Looking at documentation I thought pgbench ws included…
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Using NetInfo versus niload

I'm running an Apache webserver with name-based virtual hosting. I've set up the necessary blocks, etc. Since I wish to test this out without actually buying domain names, I've altered my Mac's internal DNS (I'm on OS X Tiger). I did this using…
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nodename nor servname provided, or not known

I can use this command on my Mac before ssh `cat /my/login/host` but I got the problem of nodename nor servname provided, or not known now.... If i use cat /my/login/host I will get aloha@8.8.8.8 I also try this : hello=`cat…
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