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I am experiencing the exact same problem and its frustrating me to no end... Grrrrr! I have used mail for about 2 years now and well, it used to work, now it doesn't move the mail into the junk mailbox... I know I am not doing anything wrong. BSDimwit

Does anyone know of a way or 3rd party software available that will do the following password related things. 1. In many UNIX's, there is a way to set password construction rules... such as all passwords must be at least 8 characters and must have at least 1 non alphabetic character... 2...

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I guess what I am asking is why aren't you starting them as part of the system startup instead of during your user login. Mac OSX is a UNIX box... Unless you are trying to run a vnc server so that you can remotely get at your desktop, why wouldn't you want these services run during bootup...

You sure can can... add a umask statement to your .cshrc or .profile ... umask 022 is the for the 755 permissions you listed above umask 077 is what you were hoping for. Now this only works when using the shell but there may be a way to set the default permissions of a file when using...

Try username%ppp instead of just username. That did the trick for me.

Check the print quality settings(they might be set to max quality)... Also clue us in as to how your printer is setup, ie. via usb, network, etc. Do you have ghostscript installed? Check out gimp-print.sourceforge.net. They have a nice array of printer drivers that all revolve around the CUPS...

You might want to look into disk quotas too. I am not sure if osX has it built in or not but its not too difficult to use in Freebsd.

Open a terminal. type "cd" you are now in your home dir. type "mkdir bin" you have now created a bin directory. now either use the finder to copy this script into your newly created bin directory or use the cp command in the terminal. If its a shell script, you will probably need to make...

Single User Mode Multi User Mode Not sure what your problem is however...

go find your tcsh and csh executables... are they the same size... if so then they are one in the same shell that has been renamed or symbolically linked. While I am not positive about this, I think that macosx only has tcsh on it and the csh is merely a copy or symbolic link to the tcsh...

and then reformatted it and tried it again with the cli?

Perhaps, on your destination volume, the stuff that didn't change ownership, already existed and the stuff that didn't exist before did infact get touched as root. This could have happened when you tried to initally copy your stuff with the finder. Finder was able to copy some stuff(that you...

The only thing I can think of is that macosx doesn't truly have csh running... they use tcsh instead, whereas your solaris box probably does have REAL csh running. While tcsh is a superset of csh, I am sure there are some minor differences in the way they handle arguments. That being said...

When you copy something as root, root becomes the owner. If you wanted it to preserver the permissions/ownership, then you could have had to tell it to do so like so... sudo cp -rp * /Volumes/hermes The p switch preserves all sorts of stuff like permissions, ownership, access times, etc...