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I looked into the problem further and have noticed the mail is now neither being directed to the external mail account I setup in NetInfo (and the .forward file) or the root account. I thought it was still being sent to the root account since I had so much mail to sort through from cron jobs...

I changed the NetInfo alias like suggested. This did not help at all. Mail is still being sent to root@localhost for the time being. Which I'm sure represents root@$mydomain from my Postfix installation. This is the only way I figure it is doing this. Neither the NetInfo alias or the...

I changed the .forward file to an actual e-mail address instead of /dev/null. As suspected, this did not change anything. None of my e-mail is forwarded to this address. As far as NetInfo aliases, I'm not sure where I would put an e-mail for the root account. When I open NetInfo, and click...

My .forward file does contain "/dev/null/" for the address location. So this causes it to be sent to root@mydomain by default? I believe I am going to try adding the address root@localhost to the .forward file for root. If I do this, how can I retrieve the root mail? I think this has been...

Now that I have Postfix installed and sendmail now works, my system now is able to send the e-mail it has always wanted to send. Unfortunately, I don't want it to be sent for a couple reasons. One, I'm not sure that I can retrieve mail sent to the root user. Two, the mail has been being sent...

There is a difference between the alias that the Finder makes and the symbolic link that can be made from the Terminal. To the Finder though, an alias and a symbolic link are represented visually the same way and do the same thing when selected. In the terminal though, they are definitely...

Open a new terminal window and create a symbolic link to the Firewire drive in your home directory. This should work just as well for most things you might want to do. Use the following command to do so... ln -s /Volumes/FWHDName/ ~/FWHDName

I want to mention one other thing I didn't mention above that is often useful. If you want to pass parmeters to the shell script you can do this as well. For example, you might define the name of the folder to be created in the Perl script at some point and want to pass this to your shell...

Well, you have several options you could try, depending on exactly what you want to do. First, you can use either the exec() or the system() perl functions. They are very simlar, but with one essential difference. If you use the exec() function, then the perl script terminates once it reaches...

It sounds like you would be better off creating a shell script where you can use cp and mkdir right inside the script. If you have to use the Perl script though, I'd suggest finding a Perl book for reference and make sure you are calling the Perl functions properly. You might also try and...

I also had this same exact problem when I first started using OS X. But it mysteriously disappeared with a system update from Apple. I can't remember which update caused the problem to go away though. It was either the update to 10.1 or one of the last 10.0.X updates before 10.1. I remember...

I've got one even better. I get the attached error message with every version of Mozilla and Netscape for OS X that I have installed. Subsequently, Mozilla and Netscape spiratically loose all or parts of my custom preferences once I quit the application. I'm pretty sure the two are related...

I continually get the following errors every second on my machine for some reason. When I login to the console (>console at login prompt), these errors flood the screen continuously. These errors also fill my system.log file. I believe it has something to do with an Adaptec SCSI driver, but...

That's quite interesting. I was under a totally different impression. I'll have to check this out. The question is, does it still use the virtual machine? If what you state is true, I would think it might have to. Although, it does some funny things. If I run a .jar or .class file I get...

Are you referring to the ability to write a JAVA app and compile it into an OS X only application? I've did this several times and found it to work extremely well. I'm not sure since I've never tried it, but I've been told there are some commercial software development applications for Windows...

Well, I was able to get the whole command, but it wasn't as helpful as I had hoped. For some reason when I try to execute the command from the terminal, it does not recognize the several of the arguments passed. Including but probably not limited to the -l and -f arguments. Below is the full...

I have been trying to figure out a way to write a script or execute a command from the terminal to dialup my ISP using PPPd. I notice when I type 'ps -ax' that there is a process for PPPd with part of the command. The problem is that the command is too long and it doesn't fit on the screen...

You can't telnet into OS X. You must use SSH to login remotely. It's just like telnet, but over a secure channel. Hence, some people refer to SSH as secure telnet. I don't believe windows has a built in SSH client. You'll need to go download one. I prefer using SecureCRT myself.

My G4 doesn't exactly crash, but it loves to hang about every other day. I have a second phone line that is dedicated to internet use. I often just dialup my ISP and let it stay connected until I need to reboot my G4 for some reason. Then I share this connection among several computers. More...

I can do both, write software and do web development. Although, I would have to say that I excel at web development. There actually is a lot of commonality between web development coding and software coding I must say. With Java, this transition so much more easy. Anyway, I thank you...