Recent content by dan_c00per

What are you FTPing to? I administer a Mac OS X Server remotely, and I found the best way was AFP over the Internet, you can use finder and it is better than FTP.

I had this problem with my OS X Server at work, mainly with Windows PCs connecting, but I changed file permission to 766 in Workgroup manager's sharing tab and did a 'Copy to all enclosed folders' and it solved the problem.

Does anyone know if it's possible to create a LPR queue and direct the input to a folder in OS X, i.e. someone printing from Windows could print to the queue and the PostScript or PCL data could be saved in a file. Or is it possible to connect to a SMB printer over the internet? I managed to...

We lost 30gb from a crashed RAID at work, we have replaced it with 2 200gb Firewire drives, one online, the other offline backup, I am running a cron task to backup every night with a simple shell-script, here's the script if you need to use it: #!/bin/sh DATE=`date +%b%d`...

I needed it to display the device name of an unmounted firewire drive, I am keeping a drive unmounted as an offline backup, but I need it to re-mount at a certain time and copy the contents of another drive to it and then unmount it. Finally found that 'disktool -l' worked perfectly with the...

Hi, I need to list all drives attached to my machine, especially the ones that aren't mounted, I came across the command that did it a while ago when I didn't need it, now I do I just can't find it anywhere, can someone refresh my memory?

That is a binary file, you cannot edit it, but that should be fine, that is what mine runs on startup, and mine is also running 10.2.4, I will look into it and let you know if I find out what it is. Unless someone else solves it first

.ssh is a folder which contains details of machines that you have ssh'd into and added to your list of known hosts What version OS are you running, it appears to be different between 10.1 and 10.2

Type 'sudo ls' in your home folder, what files do you have beginning with a '.'?

Is it possible to send a message to connected computers (OS 9 & OS X) from the command line in OS X Server?

In your home directory, type 'sudo pico .login', then enter you password, use the pico editor to remove the command you don't want and save the file

Solved it! I created a shell script to unmount it and put it in /library/startupitems with a XML .plist file and it runs OK

I tried adding the 'umount' command to the /etc/rc file, but it did not work

Hi, I have two firewire drives connected to a Mac OS X (10.2) server machine, and a crontask which mounts the second drive, backs-up the first drive onto it and then un-mounts it, effectively having an offline backup, but if the machine restarts, the drive is mounted automatically, is there a...

Checked that, not there