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Archive for November, 2005

A Mac OS X Startup Item for Sympa

Just so I don’t lose it if I forget and wipe my dev box…
This is a Mac OS X StartupItem for Sympa, which is essentially just the standard init script they distribute, but with the non-OS X stuff pulled out and redone with StartService() etc for the StartupItem format.
Note that you need to add “SYMPA=-YES-” [...]

Posted on November 23rd, 2005 under software and scripts. Comments: None

Installing suexec on Mac OS X

Apple don’t ship suexec for Apache with OS X or OS X Server, but it’s quite simple to install yourself. Here’s how:
1. Check the version of Apache httpd that you have installed.

httpd -v

In 10.4.3, this will show I have version 1.3.33:

Server version: Apache/1.3.33 (Darwin)
Server built: Mar 20 2005 15:08:27

2. Grab the source for [...]

Posted on November 22nd, 2005 under macosx. Comments: None