Posts Tagged ‘ Leopard ’

Install macports on Snow Leopard

  • July 28th, 2010
  • Posted in OS X

#1.  Make sure you have Xcode installed.  You can download it from here but you must have an account with Mac Dev Center #2. Open Terminal (under Utilities in Applications folder) #3. Checkout the software from the macports repository: svn co http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/base/ (Wait for it to finish checking out all files) #4 cd base #5 [ READ MORE ]

Leopard sed replace regular expression

  • March 26th, 2010
  • Posted in OS X

I recently had to replace an IP address in 150+ files with the literal *.  In order to accomplish this I used the following command: sed -i.bak -e “/xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/s//*:80/” * This replaced the xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with *:80 for my virtual host files[ READ MORE ]

SSH slow login

  • March 25th, 2010
  • Posted in OS X

Well, like pretty much everyone doing web development we regularly ssh and sftp into the server to change configurations and update files. We recently upgraded our web server we hit an issue that whenever we ran ssh (or sftp), it would take about 20 seconds for the password prompt to appear. As we are using [ READ MORE ]

Leopard Apache won’t start after reboot

  • March 25th, 2010
  • Posted in OS X

I took the following from this google posting: http://old.nabble.com/-JIRA–Issue-Comment-Edited:-(MAGNOLIA-1959)-Leopard-(osx-10.5)-issues-td21853819.html Just following up my previous posts and the solution we found to work with the ‘Too Many Open Files’ error, maybe it will help others as well. The problem seems to be in the way Apple has changed the files/proc settings for Leopard. Using the ‘ulimit’ and [ READ MORE ]

Enable RAID Leopard boot disk without a reinstall of OS

  • January 14th, 2010
  • Posted in OS X

Instructions were taken from here: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20041013121106176 The “enableRAID” command to change an existing active volume into a RAID slice doesn’t always work (diskutil sometimes refuses to do this). Here’s a safer and surer way to turn your boot disk into a RAID group with minimal down time and without installing OS X on the new [ READ MORE ]

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