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Mac OS X Snow Leopard (version 10.6) is the seventh major release of Mac OS X, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers.

Mac OS X Snow Leopard (version 10.6) is the seventh major release of Mac OS X, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers.

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Why is `slapconfig -backupdb` not creating disk image when run from cron on Snow Leopard Server?

Years ago I put together the following expect script to perform Open Directory backups under Tiger Server and it's worked well under Leopard Server as well: #!/usr/bin/expect -f set date [timestamp -format "%Y-%m-%d"] set archive_path…
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Snow Leopard: Optimization

I have bunch of questions: I have a Mac network, which has five Mac's. Right now, they are individually getting software updates. Is there a way to download the patches/security updates in a single place (repository) and point all machines to this…
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How to install DBD::mysql on OS X Server 10.6?

Trying to install DBD::mysql on OS X Server 10.6 (mac mini server). But I'm missing the mysql headers apparently. Since mysql is already part of OS X Server 10.6, I would like to NOT install anything else (no fink or darwin ports installs), just…
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Snow Leopard NFS Server and no_root_squash

I want to export an NFS share from my Mac to a linux VMware, but I'm running into a problem with the export. Things work fine when I export as: /Users/garyrichardson/leap/nfs -rw 172.16.180.130 Macintosh-3:~ garyrichardson$ showmount -e Exports…
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Locked out of Snow Leopard Server. How do I get back in?

I have an XServe running Snow Leopard Server (10.6.2). It has some local administrator accounts on it and it is also an OpenDirectory master. I noticed earlier today that I was not able to login with local administrator credentials via a VNC …
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Snow Leopard Permissions in Shared Folders reset on saving file

I have several users who access their accounts on OSX through their windows machines over samba. As soon as they update/save a file, it sets the permissions to -rwxr----- which means no other users can read the files. This affects apache user, for…
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E-mail groups in OS X Snow Leopard

I've been trying to figure out how to do simple e-mail distribution groups in OS X Server 10.6 now for a few hours and I can't seem to figure it out. Basically I want to be able to e-mail multiple people by e-mailing a group that they are a part of.…
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Where is the GUI config for Server Admin held?

I'm currently trying to migrate my DNS server from one Mac OS X Server to another. What I've done is rsync all the data in the /var/named folder. However Server Admin is not recognizing my zones, what file controls what server admin sees for DNS?
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Kernel panics with Snow Leopard with external Firewire hard drives

Basically seeing problems accessing external drives, SuperDuper backup slow and prone to crashing causing kernel panics, Virusbarrier ditto. See my answer seems to be a known firewire driver fault in Snow Leopard which persists in 10.6.1.
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Launch Citrix session from command line

Work has a Citrix server. My workstation is OS X 10.6.8. I noticed yesterday that if I have download an .ica file to disk I can launch it from the command line ... open agljava.ica This is nifty, if one wants to launch a session to a published…
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node.js server not running

I am trying to learn node.js, but I'm having trouble getting the simple server to run on localhost:8888. Here is the code for server.js: var http = require("http"); http.createServer(function(request, response) { response.writeHead(200,…
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Mac Server (Snow Leopard) NIC Redundancy on Separate Switches

I have a Mac Snow Leopard Server with 2 NIC's. Each NIC is plugged into a separate physical switch. Currently each NIC has it's own IP, but I would like to setup redundancy so that they communicate with one combined IP. I am unsure how to do this…
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Why is rsync getting "permission denied" errors on Mac OS X when ACLs are set for the correct user?

I'm transitioning away from an old tool that initiates an rsync (copying from a local path to a remote path w/SSH hostkeys) via a web form (completely behind a firewall w/multiple authentication layers, not that that's an excuse) hosted on Mac OS X…
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SSD TRIM Support in Snow Leopard

Does Mac OS X Snow Leopard officially support SSD TRIM yet? If not, is there an expected availability? Also, is there a brand of SSD that is most compatible with a late-2009 Mac Pro?
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Is there a tool for remotely monitoring resource usage on OS X workstations?

We have a bunch of OS X workstations and some users have complained that there isn't enough memory on them. We'd like to monitor some resource usage stats over time to see if we should upgrade memory on all the machines or not - is there a good…
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