Recent content by leleu

Here's how I keep my server setup and running (buyer beware, and all that). I use fink for some packages that I've had notorious problems compiling (mainly OpenSSH). Fink installs (by default) to /sw, although it could just as easily be /usr/local. Unix directory structure would suggest...

I'm hoping, first off, that you're not running this in a production environment ;). I use a custom compile of Apache2 (2.0.54, IIRC), and the Mac Server Admin GUI does NOT interact well with it. In fact, it's generally considered a poor practice to even CONSIDER using Apple's GUI with anything...

You cannot login from the Mac Manager? Onto the XServe console? From one of the client machines? Sounds like you mean that you cannot login to the Xserve console, so hopefully I'm addressing the right issue. This probably isn't the problem, but have you filled up your disk space? If not...

Have you guys tried installing postfix through fink's package management system? There really is never any reason to build everything yourself, and fink makes it all nice if you really want to do an optimized compile on your system in those rare cases. Most of the time it just uses the...

OK, so for a situation where users / groups / sharepoints don't really apply (e.g. mine), the server admin gui is pretty unnecessary it seems. I purchased the XServes, mostly because we had the money and the hardware is bueno, so the software is gravy. I know that you can use the software...

A question that I have yet to see answered about OS X Server... Why would anybody want to use the server builtin features for some simple things like webserving, ftp, mail, etc? I can understand how nice the GUI is for Kerberos / LDAP / OD / Windows share stuff, but it's pretty darn simple to...