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thanx, very helpful. i'm afraid that the osx 10.2-updater will also disable a configuration as ulrik described, because my impression was that the updater simply replaces the file /private/etc/httpd.conf for some reason. i might be wrong but that was my impression, because i was quite...

ulrik, can you be more precise or give an example on how to modify httpd.conf? I'm by far a not an apache expert, and i couldn't quickly find the information necessary in the apache documentation. thanx

as i just found out there is no need for two scripts. you can execute applescript via perl. my script now looks like this: all i need is to run this script with cron. additionally this script now quits Internet Connect after establishing a connection. does anybody know a better way to...

i run the perl-script below called iConnect.pl with cron. like this i check every 30 minutes if my pppoe connection is alive. if not it will be established immediately. save this as iConnect.pl and make it executable (chmod 755 iConnect.pl) the applescript iConnect contains just a single...

i 've totally fogotten about applescript. this definitely the easiest way to get this done. all you need to do is save the following line with script editor as a executable applescript. you can can run this from the command line with cron or put it into an idle loop in as to always stay...

i just noticed that after updating my system to 10.2/jaguar the websites i was serving on my machine where accessible without password protection. the file /private/etc/httpd.httpd.conf needs to be changed to turn password protection back on: the last line needs to be: all my...

as far as setting up and maintaining my ftp server the problem is solved. so i assume that os server has nothing to offer for me (from the point where i am now.)

hello. i've been using the ftp-scipt from ftp-thread to set up my ftp server. now i've osx-server-software, but i don't know why and what for i should use it. what does osx server offer that os x cannot. i'm not interested in gui. is there any new funcionality? question 2: how many...

the hatch problem is definetly a crack, not paint comin off. as for the white spots, i don't know what caused it. if some of you have similar problems with the display due to heavy impact, i wonder if my problem is due to an impact that happened before i got it, since i bought it refurbished.

nope. that's not the case. i have bright spots that look like they could be caused by the bachground light.

hello, my 6 months old titanium-powerbook has a couple of hardware problems: 1. the front hatch has a crack:picture 2. the display has white spots:picture Apple claims that these problem are due to mishandling. i argue that i have not done anything that could be called mishandling, i...

hello, i would like to automatically detect if my computer is connected to the interrnet via pppoe and connect it if it isn't. this should be accomplished using a shell script that i can run with cron. actually finding out if the connection exists is quite easy: #!/bin/sh ifconfig -a...

nope. i'm running mac osx. thanks anyways. I've done some more research on the web and found that alot of people seem to be having trouble with the RTL8139. so i want to trie a differnt card. but i don't know which one yet.

i want to build a tiny network with my two macs in order to exchange files and to share a dsl-modem. i want to use geeRoute to do the routing and i'm considering the following ethernetcard because it's cheap: longshine LCS-8038Tx-R it uses the following chip-set (which is crucial for...

thanx testuser, i've pu the pieces together from your addFtpUser-script and created a shell script that does everything from the commandline. why is it necessary (may be only on my machine???) that permissions for the homedirectory are worldreadable? here it is: #!/bin/sh...

hello how do i allow anonymous ftp users to login? i would like to set the homedirectory of the anonymous user as writeonly on a volume different from the default location for anonymous login. thanx couzteau

i'm using texshop, which is using pdftex which uses tetex, ithink... anyways pdftex, doesn't display any graphics but pdf. so i converted everything to pdf. problem solved. thanx

my tetex complains that it doesn't know how to process eps graphics. What's wrong? thanx

i'm confused. i'm talking about the osx 10 server, not the one based on next. am i right to assume that i can run the update that starbuck suggested? my original question was concerning to enable my machine to admin a server that resides on a different machine. a second but just as...

i used to have no problems connecting to my computer vie ssh. two days ago it stopped working. obviously the network control panel cannot start my sshd. i can check the option and exit the control panel. whenever i reopen the network control panel the network access is unchecked. i also...