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In the near future I will be looking to hire an IT professional with strong Mac OS X experience. I would love to post the opening here in these forums. However, I am not sure, whether it is appropriate, at all, or, should it be, in which forum to post it. Could any of you forum moderators please...

The answer is that these programs/scripts are going to be cron jobs, which will have to be executed as root. I guess, I'll end up putting it into somewhere in ~admin. Thanks very much to both of you for your feedback! Dominik Hoffmann

It's not that I can't put the code anywhere I want. What I'd like to find out is whether there is a most appropriate place to put it. Dominik Hoffmann

If I come up with code or scripts specifically for use by the root user, where would I put it? I want to stay away from /bin/, /sbin, or /usr/bin/ thinking (rightly or not?) that those are for binaries that come with stock installs. Dominik Hoffmann

Does anyone here know the internal format of a Windows shortcut or the AFP aliases? I would like to write a cron job for walking through a hierarchy, augmenting Windows shortcuts with AFP aliases and Unix symlinks and vice versa. Dominik Hoffmann

Is there a canonical location for placing this file? I am loathe to put it into any of /bin/, /sbin/ or /usr/bin/. In other words, is there a bin directory for mods that go beyond the stock install, just like I would put StartupItems into /Library/, rather than /System/Library/. Dominik

Thank you very much, Dani. Using the full pathnames works. I guess, cron knows /bin/, but not /sbin/ or /usr/bin/. I also appreciate the tip about using a shell script. Dominik Hoffmann

Here is my root's crontab (see my other post on why I have that stuff in there): * * * * * echo `date` -- `ping -c 1 xx.xx.xx.34 | sed -n -e 's/.*0\%.*/up/' -e 's/.*100\%.*/down/' -e "/up/p" -e "/down/p"` >> /var/log/uptime.log * * * * *...

A colleague of mine has to travel to Turkey where our Earthlink dial-up account only provides access in Ankara (the capital) and Izmir. Istanbul, which is by some metrics in the top 10 of largest cities in the world, is not included. Therefore we opted for a trial CompuServe account. Compuserve...

We use Earthlink for dial-up Internet access when we're travelling where there is no WiFi or Ethernet. I found that Earthlink has very spotty coverage in Turkey, although, I couldn't tell how they do elsewhere. Could you please share your experience with coverage of your ISP overseas...

For quite some time, I have been trying to set up our server running Mac OS X Server 10.2.3 as a Windows Primary Domain Controller (PDC). With the help of other posts I found http://www.afp548.com/Articles/system/sambapdc.html, which seems to based on Mac OS X Server 10.1.x, however. Also, with...

I am wondering about people's opinions on how to back up an Xserve. Of course Retrospect is an option. However, I'd prefer to use a solution that a Unix administrator who's never worked with Mac OS X would be comfortable with. What are some of the standard ways people back up their Unix boxes...

I found the solution at the AFP548 site.

I am wondering how I can copy an application over an SSH connection. I tried to tar and gzip it, but it lost its resource fork. I tried to launch a remote AppleScript that would instruct DropStuff to compress the app, but it wouldn't work, beause, presumably, I need to be logged in through...

Have you tried the latest version of the driver for those cards from MacUpdate? Dominik Hoffmann P.S.: You are not the Greg Duncan of "Private Franchising in a .com World," are you?

Go to MacUpdate. This new driver really works, whereas previous versions had problems. Dominik Hoffmann

I just realized that in early July Realtek released revised drivers for Ethernet cards using their RTL8139 chip set. These are for use with Mac OS X (>= 10.1). I just installed them on my PowerMac 7500 upgraded with a PowerLogix 400 MHz G3 card running OS X 10.1.5. For the first time I have...

Ever since I installed Mac OS X on my G4 I have been having problems with my legacy Adobe Type I Postscript fonts. Since installing the system from scratch a second time, the system at least recognized the fonts in /Library/Fonts/. I also observed that some of the fonts simply dragged over from...

If I run a program that generates a lot of output with the "&" suffix, it will continue operating in the background, only that the output is not directed to the shell anymore. If I now logout of the shell that process will continue to run in the background, since it is no longer tied to the...

I have edited the Netinfo /machines path to have an entry for "fr2". When I'm done it lists like this:[localhost:~] admin% niutil -read . /machines/fr2 name: fr2 ip_address: 10.20.1.10 serves: fr2/local My question is, what is "serves" and what rules should I follow in properly setting that...