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In: Apple
1 May 2008By default the MacOS X Open Directory debugging log file is disabled. You can temporarily reenable it by running the following command in the Terminal app:
sudo killall -USR1 DirectoryService
After you reboot, debugging will be disabled again. If you want to enable Open Directory debugging so that it stays enabled across reboots, run the following command [...]
Symptom: Users are unable to connect to the FTP service on MaxOS X Server 10.4. Both local user accounts and Open Directory users are unable to connect to the server via FTP. However they are able to connect to the server via Apple File Sharing (AFP). The system.log file has FTP server entries which contain [...]
In: Apple
18 Mar 2008In Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger some system preferences were unique to a particular computer and so were named using a naming convention that included the MAC address of the first network device in the computer (en0). In Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard this naming convention was changed to use a different unique identifier other [...]
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15 Mar 2008This script uses otool -L to determine and print all dynamic library dependencies of a given executable or library file recursively and you use it like this:
$ checklibs.pl /bin/ls
/bin/ls:
/usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
[...]
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