OS X

rsync maybe trying to connect using rsh not ssh

This link, http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2003-September/007163.html

seems to address the problem I'm having. It looks like rsync is trying to connect using rsh not ssh. which both my backup machine and phpwebhosting won't allow.

I only use ssh and set the RSYNC_RSH environment variable.

so now I just need to figure out how to set that environment varible

So I ran the command

export RSYNC_RSH=ssh

I added the line

RSYNC_RSH=ssh; export RSYNC_RSH

permission problem for MySQL 4.0.18 in OS X

This page, http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/161985 described the exact problem I was having with installing MySQL in OS X

Next I'll try installing version 4.0.17 as the page recommends.

This page, http://www.entropy.ch/software/MacOSx/mysql/ is also a good resource for installing MySQL on OS X

Successfull install from source

Installing from the source code (the .tar.gz file) worked by following the instructions here.

http://developer.apple.com/internet/opensource/osdb.html

Mysql now can be run from the command line.

Now I just have to get phpAdmin working.

Install working but wierd

well I have gotten the install working. But there are some strange things.

when connecting via php I have to provide a socket path

/usr/local/mysql/run/mysql_socket

Is there a way of setting the default socket for php?

I creates a mysql user called rcortesiwith a password that matches my webhosting one. This is to allow php pages built here to be moved to php webhosting and the same connection settings to be used. I had to use the MySQL PASSWORD function to add the password the user rcortesi to allow php mysql_connect command to work with the password.

Paritioning

Moving the User's home directory to a UFS partition

This article describes how to move the user's home directory to a different partition in Jaguar. I got the idea from it, and then had to deviate when I could not get the niuntil command to work.

userland is the name of my UFS partition for users.

First I copied the current user directory to new partition using ditto. This will convert HFS+ resource forks to the hidden "._" files when copying to file systems that don't support resource forks.:

sudo ditto -rsrc /Users/ Volumes/userland/Users

Second, rename the /Users directory on the system parition to a different name, and create a soft link to the new Users directory.

sudo mv /Users /Users_old
sudo ln -s /Volumes/userland/Users /Users

To test if the new path is working. Create a test file in /Volumes/userland/Users/yourusername. Log out and log back in. When you open your directory home directory in the finder you should see 1) your test file and 2) folders with special icons (desktop, documents, library, etc).

You can also add users from the system preferences and you can see that their home directory will be created on the partition userland.

Finally once you have satisfied yourself that your new users partition is working correctly you can get rid of your old users directoy on the file system partition.

sudo rm -dr /Users_old

Setting up the Applications Partition

I have a separate HFS+ partition for installing non-apple applications. I left the /Applications directory on the root file system with the applications that the apple installer installed because I came across and article on the web about how moving the /Applications directoty to a different partition cause some problems. I have NOT verified that moving it does cause problems.

So my solution was to create a separate HFS+ for the applications I install after the initial system install. This would allow me to reinstall the system software without having the reinstall all the apps that I installed afterwards. It also allows me to have multiple system paritions and I can boot from and I don't have to maintain duplicates of all my applications.

I selected HFS+ as the file format incase there were apps that actually used the resource fork and would not play nice with OS X splitting it into sperate files on a UFS partition.

I created a 16 Gig partition called appland and Created a directory in it called myapps. Then I created a soft link to the this directory in the /Applications.

sudo ln -s /Volumes/appland/myapps /Appications/myapps

Installing X11

First I installed the Apple Developer Kit, including the X11 SDK.

The I downloaded and installed the apple X11 implementation.

To see if fink recognizes that I installed the apple X11 system I ran:

shell>fink-virtual-pkgs

....bunch of non-x11 virtual packages listed...

Package: system-xfree86
Status: install ok installed
Version: 2:4.3-2
description: [placeholder for user installed x11]
provides: xserver, x11, libgl, xft2, fontconfig1, rman, xfree86-base-threaded

Package: system-xfree86-dev
Status: install ok installed
Version: 2:4.3-2
description: [placeholder for user installed x11 development tools]
provides: x11-dev, libgl-dev, xft2-dev, fontconfig1-dev
builddependsonly: true

Package: system-xfree86-shlibs
Status: install ok installed
Version: 2:4.3-2
description: [placeholder for user installed x11 shared libraries]
provides: x11-shlibs, libgl-shlibs, xft1-shlibs, xft2-shlibs, fontconfig1-shlibs,
xfree86-base-threaded-shlibs

So it appears that fink does know about apple's x11 package.

Installing Darwin Ports

Here is instructions on getting Darwin Ports. There is a more complete discussion in this chapter of the Darwin Ports Guide.

Here is the summary of what I did:

% cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.opendarwin.org:/Volumes/src/cvs/od login
% cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.opendarwin.org:/Volumes/src/cvs/od co -P darwinports

% cd ~/darwinports/base
% ./configure
% make
% sudo make install

Now I can install darwin ports with the following command:

% sudo port install portnamehere

This chapter on using the darwin ports lists other options for the ports command.

To be able to use the port command without having to type its full path (/opt/local/bin/port) add the following line to your .profile file (assuming you are using bash).

export PATH="/opt/local/bin/:$PATH"

Darwing ports installs binary executables in this path.

By putting the path to darwinports binaries at the begining of $PATH it means that darwinports' bin direcoty will be checked first. So if there is a version of rsync in darwinports (/opt/local/bin) and a version in /usr/bin the darwinports version will be used.

The other option is to put the darwinports path at the end of $PATH and rename the old verion file that you nolonger want to execute (/usr/bin/rsync in this example). This may be safer because then a bogus command in darwinports won't pre-empt a system function.

I'm not sure which is a better techinque.

Apps Install from Fink or Darwin Ports

Here is a list of apps that I installed from Fink or Darwin Ports:

Package	Provider	Remarks
octave	Fink	a matlab like computational software
rsync	Darwin	Darwin ports has a more current version than Fink
hfsrsync	Darwin	The HFS+ aware version on rsync
ImageMagick	Darwin	Dawrin has more uptodate version of ImageMagick than Fink

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