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Authored by: 47ronin on Dec 30, '02 04:27:54PM

Maybe you should mention that passwords, groups, users, shells, and the link are stored in NetInfo, and not handled by typical UNIX methods. Very important.

Also, mention a link to the macosxhints article which describes how to fix the default Jaguar tcsh setup errors (misspellings in the .login, etc) which should restore tab-filename completion functionality and a few other problems with remote shells. Please add that default user shells are set to tcsh whereas the default system shell is bash. This can be changed via NetInfo.

Mac OS X uses non-standard directories for Apache, which has its root doc dir in /Library/WebServer/Documents

Just my two cents... anyone else?



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Authored by: thinkyhead on Dec 30, '02 08:13:28PM
Unix admins might expect to be able to start up sendmail on Mac OS X, but unfortunately the included sendmail is broken. This article explains what you need to do to get it working on Jaguar: http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/09/10/sendmail.html Apple includes PHP and Apache with Mac OS X, but if you want to customize them you may need to build them yourself. Likewise web administrators will want to know about Apache customization and MySQL. There are several articles available online that cover these tools. The best resources are: Apple Internet Developer Marc Liyanage StepWise

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Authored by: sjk on Apr 12, '03 03:37:13PM
I highly recommend Aaron Faby's excellent "Complete" packages from Server Logistics, like Complete MySQL.

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