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There is a way to run the Veritas Java console in MacOSX and manage Veritas Cluster Server from a Mac. I used RPM packages from Red-Hat to create a MacOS compatible Java Console, in the end, everything is Java, and Java is portable between systems. We will need the Veritas Console RPM package, and the alien software to convert rpm files to tar.gz. Alien can be downloaded from http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/alien/alien_8.83.tar.gz Decompress the tar file in a temporary folder Read more...
Time Machine creates incremental backups of files that can be restored at a later date. It allows the user to restore the whole system or specific files. You can use a TimeCapsule external WiFi disk, or an USB disks that OSX will format to be used as backup storage. TimeMachine can work with remote units mounted over network protocols like AFP or SAMBA, but this way is not supported by Apple, but they allow you to do it without support running next command to enable it: $ sudo defaults write Read more...
para el samba y parar e iniciar procesos en snow lepard: Stop or start daemons in MacOS Snow Leopoard is very easy running System Preferences pannel and select Sharing, you will find all the sharing applications (or daemons/agents) like SAMBA, FTP, SSH, etc, but, what about start or stop them using the console... Here is how to do it. You have two options, one deprecated and other more modern: # service --list to list the available services to work with. but you will receive this Read more...
If you create new partitions with fdisk you would need to restart the system since a funny message warning you about that, to re-read the new partition table, you need to reboot. But with a parted (another like-fdisk partition tool) included command called partprobe, it will re-read the new partitioning and send the changes to the kernel requesting a new re-read without reboot. After fdisk partitioning, type the command: # partprobe Again, in order to use partprobe command you need to install Read more...