• Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Network Infrastructure,  Network Printing,  Ubuntu,  Unix,  VMware

    Use Netstat To Locate What Process Is Using A Port

    January 16, 2014

    You’re installing software on some host. The installation goes well and then you go to access the information you need or connect to the service from another host. Wait, what’s that? Port is already in use? Crap. We’ve all been there. The quick and dirty answer: netstat. Let’s say you’re trying to use port 8080: netstat -tuln | grep 8080 Let’s say the response is httpd. OK, let’s see where that’s located using whereis: whereis httpd And what kind of file is httpd: file /usr/sbin/httpd Which responds with: /usr/sbin/httpd: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64 I guess we knew that since it had a port open, but what type of executable is…

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  • Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Xsan

    Installing Final Cut Server on Lion & Mountain Lion Server

    September 6, 2012

    Thanks to Allan Sanderson for the following submission, which outlines how to install Final Cut Server in Lion and Mountain Lion Server. In Server.app ————- Websites: Check “Enable PHP web applications” Install Java ———— Open /Applications/Utilities/Java Preferences.app You’ll be prompted by Software Update service to install Java, click “Continue”, provide admin credentials when promopted. Install Final Cut Server ———————— Run Final Cut Server installer. Then run Software Update to get ProApplications 2010-02 & Final Cut Server v1.5.2 updates. Check Configuration ——————- 1) Check fcsvr user has been created: dscl /Local/Default -search /Users RecordName fcsvr Output should look something like this: fcsvr RecordName = ( fcsvr ) 2) Check “fcsvr” user’s…

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  • Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security

    Apache2 & umasks

    May 19, 2011

    I’ve been noticing more and more people using Apache as a way of getting files to and from servers. Call me silly but I think we’re going to continue to see more and more of this. A really common issue that comes up with Apache2 is default permissions of new files. Mac OS X is great with ACLs and whatnot. But Apache is built for posix. Posix is built on the foundation that the permissions of new files that are created come from umask. If you have a script that uploads a file then you can set the permissions as part of the script. But if you just pull it…

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  • Active Directory,  Ubuntu

    Installing phpLDAPadmin

    November 17, 2010

    phpLDAPadmin is a tool that can be used to walk LDAP trees and view attributes of objects located within them using a web browser. This isn’t to say that it’s the prettiest tool out there but it works really well and is portable between various flavors of LDAP. Before you can use phpLDAPadmin you will need Apache. In Ubuntu, Apache can be installed using apt-get: apt-get install apache2 Once you have Apache installed, downloading phpLDAPadmin and installing it in Ubuntu Server 10 couldn’t be easier, just apt-get the package: apt-get install phpldapadmin Now you have the pieces, let’s copy phpLDAPadmin into your web root directory: cp -R /usr/share/phpldapadmin /var/www/myphpldapadmin In that…

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