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chris nz
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Jul 10, 2002, 3:32 PM
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Lonely MacOSX users...
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I am starting this thread because I find that there are still very few really good resources for Mac/Unix based System/Web admins. Particularly the documentation on a lot of sites dealing with Unix or other OS software or cgi scripts, don't often realise that the Mac platform runs on Unix but it has still quite a few little teething problems. That's becaus Apple keeps tinkering with the standard underlying Base system to make it what it is today. And many people like myself have learn a lot by mistake...
Having said that, all guys here at Interactive seem to be the most knowledgeable and certainly the most helpful people around!!
If anyone is running the OS and either the built-in Apache or iTools 6.5.1 or Webstar V, I thought this could be a good place to go through any topics relating to Article Manager (or any other programs from interactive) that run on Apple Mac OSX 10 or higher.
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Dave
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Jul 12, 2002, 11:37 AM
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Re: [chris nz] Lonely MacOSX users...
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One of the most useful things I found, for those who haven't figured it out yet, is how to enable your root user account on OS X. Here's a link on how to do that:
http://www.macos.utah.edu/Documentation/macosx/security/enablerootuser.html
There's a lot of files you can't access or modify without root access so being able to switch to root helps. To switch just open up the terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal) and type 'su root'. If you need to just run some commands as root but don't want to switch you can always just type 'sudo COMMAND' (for "super user do").
I know Chris probably already knows this stuff, but it took me a while to figure out though so I thought I'd post it for anyone else who was using OS X. Any other OS X users out there? hello? hello? (is there an echo)? : )
My other piece of advise, is that you'll often find tips online by hardcode UNIX/BSD gurus who will make things "work" on OS X by tweaking the underlying configuration files to behave the way they're used to. Apple has come up with some of their own systems for managing things and often I think it's better to try and learn it the Apple way instead of changing the underlying system and potentially breaking things. Creating a local test domain for your webserver is one example. /etc/hosts doesn't work on OS X. There's lots of advice on how to make it work again, but often it's easier to do it Apple's way, which is to use "Netinfo Manager" to manage all that kind of data.
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com
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schmidtc
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Oct 16, 2002, 5:29 PM
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Re: [Dave] Lonely MacOSX users...
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Ditto all the above.
Oh, and AM and JM work great with Apple OSX Server 10.1x and apache...
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