Dr Fragen in the operating room

Andy Fragen

  • Fail2ban and OS X Server, Part Deux

    As some of you might know I run my own installation of OS X Server. I’ve since updated it to Snow Leopard Server and I think I’ve got most of it running well. As I check my server logs frequently I find that there are all sorts of script kiddies attempting to log in to…

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  • Customer Service

    I just had to pass along kudos to [APC][]. I use one of their BackUPS battery backup systems. It’s been flawless for most of the past 3 years. In the past 3 days the overload light has tripped and it shuts off power to everything. Not what you want. I called tech support. They picked…

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  • Tenet Healthcare and the iPhone

    Well, I finally broke down and started using Tenet’s Exchange Server. First, IS created an Exchange account for me then I tried adding it to my iPhone. After I got the settings right, from someone who’s using it with their iPhone everything works fine. Here are the settings that aren’t obvious. Server mail.etenet.com Domain tenethealth…

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  • Setting up Snow Leopard iCal Server

    After scouring through the official documentation, and finding that lacking, Google has found the answers. Make sure Wiki Server is set to 127.0.0.1 and that Use SSL is checked. Here’s how I was finally able to get my groups into iCal SL/Lion client (no SSL) userName password server.com/principals/__uids__/wiki-groupName/ (no http://) To get this group calendar…

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  • Snow Leopard Sieve Rules

    How to edit _sieve_ rules in Snow Leopard by hand. This is not really recommended especially because it seems that SL server does not utilize all the sieve rules and the ones that it does utilize are in a slightly different format than exists in [Sieve documentation][1]. A couple of sources later and a couple…

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  • Dovecot Permissions

    Well, I finally bit the bullet and installed OS X Snow Leopard Server. Most of what I absolutely **need** to get working is mail services. One of the peculiarities of Dovecot is that each users mail folder is owned by that user. I think in Cyrus they were all owned by *mail* or *_cyrus*. Anyway,…

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