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Mac OS X Server 10.2.4 Update Available
Hungus writes "The Mac OS X Server 10.2.4 Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for the following applications, services and technologies: AFP, SMB and NFS file services, DHCP, NetBoot, Open Directory, QuickTime Streaming Server, Sendmail and Workgroup Manager. It prevents Xserve drives from being unmounted while locked, provides digest authentication for WebDAV, management of Energy Saver settings, and supports NetBoot images greater than 2 GB in size. The update also provides the latest Security Updates. It's available via Software Update or for separate download."
This improved a lot of the issues I was having with WebDAV. Nice to see Apple making the changes that we were looking for in an upgrade. DHCP server is MUCH more reliable now! But still no tabbed....wait...wrong app.
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and supports NetBoot images greater than 2 GB in size it makes you kind of wonder tho, who has netboot images that ARE greater than 2 GB? Could this just be another useless 'feature' or upgrade that doesnt do too much? (kinda like maximum current connections on BSD, close to a million really serves no purpose). And anyways, wouldn't anyone who would have that 2g image have to be on like one of the new fiber college backbones that can actually handle that, or are people generally content waiting a few hours to boot...
Server Update. If you're not running OS X Server, this puppy will sit on your drive like the corpse of a dead muskrat under the front porch, rotting in the hot summer sun.
This is for MacOS X Server. Not the regular OS X.
Server Update ~ It's new, trust us.
WHAT??? This is useless to me then. I should have known something was up when I did an apt-get install and it just spit out an error message.
I just installed it remotely via command line software update.
It hasnt come back up.
Crap. Looks like I'm going to work early.
I'm hoping that with the release of 10.2.4 Server, apple will post the source to their mod_rendezvous_apple Apache module on the Darwin Server page.
Nothing there yet, but keep an eye on it... it'd be nice to be able to tweak that module as we see fit.
(Especially since Eric Seidel's mod_rendezvous code is still not on Sourceforge)
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A full Mac OS X, with localisations for all languages (Tagalog, Traditional Chinese, Hangul, ..), the full Developer Tools and a few minor things like Safari and X11, amounts to a netboot image of about 3GB.
/Network/Library, as it should. So you install that "locally", i.e. on the netboot image, too. If you'd keep iDVD installed, add about 1.2GB (all that effects, styles, art included make up for that much). Luckily, iDVD runs fine from network servers
Now you can run most apps, then, from automounted "/Network/Applications" (or whatever) network file servers, but not all; particularly Adobe has some nasty installers, and bad software that refuses to use
So you'll end up easily with 4GB or more, just by installing only broken software that won't run from the network locally. It's not like everything is transferred; netbooting is simply a matter of tftp'ing a loader and the kernel, creating a little local swap and tmp, and nfs-mounting the system partition (the netboot image); not really all that much network traffic at all.
The $1000 question, though, is: how about images over 4GB? Preliminary testing suggests the 2GB limit just became a 4GB limit. Signed to unsigned integers in the NFS code, probably. We need over 4GB, though.
Steve! Get with it!
Why do legitimate questions always get modded down?
Slashdot moderators = fucking retarded.
Content management has always been a hobby of mine. And Apple's have been a hobby of mine. You see where this is going ;-) ? I wonder how many people will actually use this ?
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