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."

Comments

netboot

[Stinson]

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...

Re:netboot

[imac.usr]

For our standard desktop image at work, with things like Office, FileMaker, and so on, the most recent version topped out at well over 2 GB. Note that we won't be netbooting it regularly, but it would be nice to be able to do so on occasion for troubleshooting purposes, and to use NetInstall to just install the whole thing at once.

Personally, I'm more excited by this part of the update details:

Support for IP over FireWire. This enhancement enables Mac OS X Server to utilize high speed, low latency interconnects for clustering and IP failover solutions over FireWire. You no longer need to use ports on your gigabit Ethernet switch in order to use IP failover.

This could be a great solution for building a cluster of server machines while still allowing each one independent access to the network.

Re:Solid upgrade

[dewhite]

I have a question for someone using OSXS - is apple as reboot-happy with thier 'server' updates as they are for the OS X client? Sometimes (as in the case of major updates) a reboot is necessary and proper. But, when I was using OS X 10.0.X (I'm currently experimenting with Gentoo PPC Linux) I was annoyed that each week brought a new reboot-nonoptional update. I don't mind apple keeping us up-to-date and secure, I think it's great. I'm pretty certain, however, that some of those reboots are of the 'good habit' variety, rather than being absolutly necessary. I didn't mean to rant, I really did mean to ask -- how prevalent are the reboots with OSXS?

mod_rendezvous_apple source code?

[mithras the prophet]

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)