Questions tagged [osx-snow-leopard]

Mac OS X Snow Leopard (version 10.6) is the seventh major release of Mac OS X, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers.

Mac OS X Snow Leopard (version 10.6) is the seventh major release of Mac OS X, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers.

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Can I create my own S/MIME certificate for email encryption?

I'm having a bit of an issue here. Bear with me as this may be a case of "not asking the right question". Background: Using Apple Mail. Want to encrypt/decrypt email but GPGMail (and apparently PGP) isn't supported with Snow Leopard. Basically I…
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Postfix aliases and duplicate e-mails, how to fix?

I have aliases set up in postfix, such as the following: all@mydomain.com: foo@mydomain.com, bar@mydomain.com ... When an email is sent to all@mydomain.com, and any of the recipients in that alias is cc:ed which is quite common (ie: "Reply…
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How to access LVM partitions on OS X?

I need to access ext3 partitions over an LVM logical volume in a SATA HD connected through USB2 to my iMac with OS X 10.6 . Is it possible to see LVM volumes from OS X? How? Disk Utility says that the attached device is unknown and propose to…
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rsync xattr oddness between mac & linux?

Hullo all - I'm using rsync to back up from my mac to a fileserver runnning linux, and I see the following error: rsync -e ssh -vaxE --delete --ignore-errors 192.168.1.3:/bkup/mac/Users/dave/ /Users/dave/Desktop/dave dave@192.168.1.3's password:…
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OSX SL Server CalDav/DirectoryServices Authentication Error

I have a OSX SL Server (Version 10.6.8) that has been in production with about 40 users for approximately a year now. Since day one I have had problems where occasionally a users iCal client throws authentication errors. Resetting the users…
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Force Juniper-network client to use split routing

I'm using the Juniper client for OSX ('Network Connect') to access a client's VPN. It appears that the client is configured to not use split-routing. The client's VPN host is not willing to enable split-routing. Is there a way for me to over-ride…
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How to permanently redirect port 80 to 8080 on OS X?

On OS X 10.6 you do not have iptables, so what is the full solution for this permanently redirect all request sent to port 80 to another port, like 8080? It has to be persistent.
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Snow Leopard iSCSI initiator

I'm getting ready for a large Snow Leopard migration and am having problems with the standard iSCSI initiator from globalSAN. After some research I found out that the initiator is just incompatible with Snow Leopard. My question is what iSCSI…
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Workaround SpamAssassin Y2K10 Bug (Mac OS X Server)

Bug Report: https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6269 It turns out that SpamAssassin is adding a score of 3.2 (FH_DATE_PAST_20XX) to all email going through my mail server (Mac OS X 10.6 Server) because of the above bug. See…
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Permission issues with Samba and OS X

I'm having some serious permission issues with Mac client machines (OS X Snow Leopard) connected to a UNIX server (running CentOS) through Samba. No matter which permissions I set for a file on the server, the Mac ignores them and changes the…
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What options are available to perform whole disk encryption with Snow Leopard

We would like to encrypt the entire disk of a Snow Leopard workstation running some sensitive file, database and web services. PGP does not yet work for 10.6, and we cannot use FileVault as it is not compliant with FIPS and would require…
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OSX 10.6 integration into NIS/netgroup/automount infrastructure

I have an existing infrastructure where accounts are maintained under NIS (yp) with no local unix accounts. Also, all the standard maps including hosts, mail aliases, netgroups, etc...are maintained in this form. Extensive use of the UNIX/Linux…
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Mac OS Snow Leopard: Why does my mysql.default_socket value not change in my phpinfo() page?

I'm getting errors whenever I try to connect locally to mySQL on Mac OS Snow Leopard 10.6.4. I'm running mySQL 5.1.46. I can log in using the console. I'm running PHP 5.3.2 and my phpinfo() page is working fine. So I've got PHP running, I can log…
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Mac OS X Server 10.6 - Apple's software mirrored RAID worth it?

I am installing an Intel Xserve (Quad core Xeon) with Snow Leopard Server (10.6) on two 80Gb 7200rpm SATA HDs. I created a mirrored RAID set using Disk Utility with those two drives, all went fine. I was then asking myself if this is really a good…
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Inconsistent single-word DNS resolution in OS X (Snow Leopard)

DNS resolution appears to be inconsistent across OS X for no reason I can fathom. $ ping example PING example.co.uk (80.94.32.224): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 80.94.32.224: icmp_seq=0 ttl=56 time=62.077 ms Yet: $ nslookup example Server: …
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