Category Archives: osx-server

Forwarding Email in Leopard Server, part 2

Posted on June 6, 2008 by Andy Fragen

I’ve previously written about problems with Leopard server and forwarding of virtual hosted domain email. My solution was somewhat inelegant and errors were written into the mail.log. Since that time I’ve found a solution that works and generates no errors. … Continue reading →

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Fixing cyrus

Posted on March 24, 2008 by Andy Fragen

Yeah, I did something stupid and had to reinstall my server OS — again. I thought I’d be OK but my mail backup was about a day old. I’ve used mailbfr before and it worked great but this time I … Continue reading →

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Unforeseen Circumstances

Posted on March 14, 2008 by Andy Fragen

Due to unforeseen circumstances I accidentally trashed my server installation. Don’t ask me for details but I think I accidentally unloaded all my launch daemons. I figured no big deal just restart the machine and everything’s fine. Not so fine. … Continue reading →

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Webmail Authentication

Posted on March 12, 2008 by Andy Fragen

OK, my problem with my webmail and my Thunderbird user are fixed. Here’s what happened. When I was setting up my server install with the AppleCare rep on the phone he said to check CRAM-MD5 and Plain for authentication. This … Continue reading →

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Apple USB Ethernet Adapter - solution

Posted on February 14, 2008 by Andy Fragen

Peter Sichel of Sustainable Softworks is a genius. Seriously. He’s not only just updated his USB to Ethernet Adapters for Mac OS X to work with the recently released Apple-branded USB Ethernet adapter, but he sent me a comment letting … Continue reading →

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In for repairs

Posted on February 14, 2008 by Andy Fragen

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 … Continue reading →

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Apple USB Ethernet part 2

Posted on February 12, 2008 by Andy Fragen

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 … Continue reading →

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Apple USB Ethernet adapter

Posted on February 8, 2008 by Andy Fragen

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 … Continue reading →

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Forwarding Email in Leopard Server

Posted on February 6, 2008 by Andy Fragen

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 … Continue reading →

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Fixing MySQL and phpMyAdmin

Posted on May 21, 2007 by Andy Fragen

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. … Continue reading →

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