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I am the person who basically started this section in Macosx.com. I also wrote the welcome memo. I have a SMALL project underway to provide a webpage that reports the current state of OSX networking. The focus will be on source,MacOX, and darwin projects that are out...

I read Apple's "UnderstandingUsingNetInfo.pdf" available from it's knowledge base. The guide talks about setting up a netinfo domain with an OSX server. It talks about something called "NetInfo Domain Setup", an application built into OSX server. OSX client has NetInfo Utility and it seems...

This is not a forum to learn Unix. There are two others on this site for that. This is a specialized forum to discuss networking brought over from unix that has now been integrating into Mac OSX. Some examples of software/protocols/standards that have been ported are: SSH (secure...

How about putting up a new domain for OSX/unix networking, or at least create another section..... There are loads of issues that come up WRT implementing and troubleshooting netinfo,nis,nfs....... Since apple has left the options open, we need a forum to find solutions on our own...

Installed ncurses and VIM using MAC OSX pkg's from http://macosx.forked.net/ vim wont start up b/c: dyld: vim can't open library: /usr/local/lib/libdl.dylib (No such file or directory, errno = 2) and ls-l yields: [localhost:/usr/local/lib] macroot% ls libcurses.dylib...

BESIDES removing theactual CD drive, is there a way to prevent the booting of an OSX machine from a CD?? This is a blaring!!! security hole. We are setting up a lab, and we can't have this. Any CONCRETE ideas???

I want a list of exactly what software has been changed, deleted, modified, upgraded since 10.0.0 Golden Master. For example: there was no SSH in 10.0.0 and since, there have been multiple updates with each SW install. I am interested primarily in the darwin (BSD/UNIX) based applications...

This "script" that runs MacOSX is more like a multithreaded and well thought out program. Give it some respect, bozo.

I try to tar a directory yet it doesnt seem to work??? [localhost:~] hunter% tar -C xfer/ tar: Failed open to read on /dev/nrst0 <No such file or directory> the dir IS there I want to archive and compress this file..what else can I do????

"whereis java" yields: /usr/bin/java yet.. it seems like the more used jdk is in /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.3/ This is quite unsettling. According to "man whereis" : The whereis utility checks the standard binary directories for the speci- fied...

I am pretty new to unix. I have been using osx since 3/24. It seems that the general dir to install applications on other unix systems is to /usr/local OSX has this too, however, is /Users/someUserName just as good a place?? what differences will occur if I install something in either...