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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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Unable to start a MySQL server on Mac OS X

Thank you to samt for solving the first problem with chown! I run the command $sudo /opt/local/bin/mysqld_safe5 & ~ [1]…
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VirtualHost on Lion navigates to wrong document root

I'm struggling with getting Virtual Hosts running on my local Lion development machine. Here's the scenario. I have Site-A.dev and Site-B.dev sitting in my User/computername/Sites folder, like…
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ssh from username1@client to host using username2@destination

Forgive the possibly simple question, but I cannot seem to find a good solution. A backup job needs to rsync files to a destination host, over ssh. The only login available to me is username2@destination. I do not have access to the sshd logs on the…
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Strategy for gaining ssh access without setting up a router

I'm going to need to administrate someone's macbook pro remotely over ssh. Problem is, they'll be moving between networks so I can't just set up port forwarding on their router. What strategy could I use to gain access, regardless of the network…
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SSH Public Key Authentication Fails Mac OSX

I am trying to get a coworkers MacBook Air running on Public Key Authentication and even after generating a new SSH key I haven't been able to get it to run like I have mine. Double checked file permissions, added her to all of the proper groups on…
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Getting Macs to authenticate to AD and map home directory

I have a multi-platform environment with Macs and Windows. I have it now setup where users can log into their Macs authenticating with their user accounts in Active Directory. I used to have their home directory in AD mapped and placed as a link on…
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How does a NetBoot server advertise itself?

I'm running the NetBoot service on a box running Mac OS X 10.5.6 server. I've been changing images to serve up, and most of them work, but the last one I tried doesn't -- if you go to System Preferences -> Startup Disk on a client, it doesn't see a…
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Cannot bind to AD from Snow Leopard

Mac OS X Snow Leopard cannot bind to my Active Directory (Tiger, Lion can with no problem). I go to Accounts > Login Options, click Join and enter the details. Upon entering the correct FQDN (domain.int) I get an Active Directory Settings dropdown,…
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Do Mac OS X servers have a security mechanism that blocks a user if they log in from two different IPs?

A trusted friend and I had ssh'ed into a Mac OS X Web Server (either 10.6.8 Snow Leopard or 10.7 Lion) from two different locations. Then my password stopped working when trying to log in. I can safely rule out the possibility that my friend…
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Can't edit an account in MySQL Administrator on OS X

I'm running MySQL 5.5.20 on OS X 10.6.8. Using MySQL Administrator 1.2.12 (the latest) I am unable to edit any accounts. After successfully connecting to the database in MySQL Administrator, I go the Account tab, expand a user, and it just says…
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How do I change a user's base dir in OS X

I'm configuring a OS X Lion based ftp/sftp server, and I want the user for file transfers to land in a specific directory upon login. I'm not sure if it's a good idea to meddle with the home directory as I'm unsure if the absence of directories like…
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How to install latest stable nginx on Mac OS X

Can anyone provide some insight on how to install a later nginx than the 0.6.32 in macports? On Linux I use 0.7.55 so would like to have the same on the Mac. Follow-up : I realised that I could also build it from source like I do for Linux so that…
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slapd not launching on Mac OS X 10.6

I have a slight problem with the openldap server installed with Mac OS X 10.6.8 (regular, not server). When I launch slapd in a terminal, it stops itself after 1 or 2 seconds... I just have the time to see its process... It doesn't seem to crash,…
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How can i keep permissions for _www apache

I'm on Mac OS X lion, and I use apache for php and rails development. What groups or permissions should I set so that apache, through the _www user/group has full read/write access to my website directories (located in ~/Projects) but also keeping…
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Outlook 2011 saves to draft instead of sending

Every now and again, (once a day for some users), emails get saved in the draft folder and not sent. There is no message to show this when it happens, just a few hours later, you notice unread messages in your drafts folder. I'm trying to find out…
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