Category Archives: osx-server

In for repairs

Well, I’m going to try and clone my server and run it off the booted external firewire drive until I get my server’s ethernet port fixed.

I can only hope it goes well. Wish me luck. And yes I’m backing up.

Apple USB Ethernet part 2

Well, after spending several hours on the phone with AppleCare is seems that my mini’s ethernet port went belly up at the exact same time I tried to install the Apple USB Ethernet adapter.

It seems my ethernet port recognizes a connection but just doesn’t transfer data. I did boot from an external firewire drive and […]

Apple USB Ethernet adapter

Don’t use this adapter on any Mac except the MacBook Air

At least not yet. Here’s why. The Apple USB Ethernet adapter loads just fine but it identifies itself with a BSD Device Name of en0. The problem with this is that your Mac’s built-in ethernet adapter also is identified as en0.

I bought this to be […]

Forwarding Email in Leopard Server

OK, to put it mildly the Workgroup Manager and Email in Leopard Server has some quirks and problems.

I and others noted that a user whose email was set to forward would give a 550 error about not being able to access the users mailbox or the mailbox wasn’t set up. Well, since the mail is […]

Fixing MySQL and phpMyAdmin

There seems to be a problem with how current versions of OS X store the mysql socket and how phpMyAdmin looks for it. It seems currently the socket is stored at /tmp/mysql.sock but phpMyAdmin is looking for it at /var/mysql/mysql.sock. The result is a connection error type #2002.

After a lot of Googling here’s the solution. […]