By default, the Software Update Service, long a part of OS X Server, is hidden. This indicates the service is not likely to be long for this world. However, many an organization still likes to leverage cooling off periods for their Mac fleet. To see the service, once you’ve installed the Server app, open the Server app and then from the View menu, select Software Update. You’ll then see the Software Update service. If you click off of the service and close the app, it will be hidden again. If you enable the service, you will then see it each time you open the Server app. We’ll get into enabling the Software…
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Isolating iNodes in Xsan cvfsck Output
I’ve noticed a couple of occasions where data corruption in Xsan causes a perceived data loss on a volume. This does not always mean that you have to restore from backup. Given the cvfsck output, you can isolate the iNodes using the following: cat cvfsck.txt | grep *Error* | cut -c 27-36 > iNodeList.txt Once isolated you can then use the cvfsdb tool to correlate this to file names. For example, if you have an iNode of 0x20643c8 then you can convert this into a file name using the following: cvfsdb> show inode 0x20643c8 The output will be similar to the following: 000: 0100 8000 3f04 0327 5250 2daa 0000…