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Archive for March, 2008

Querying hosts with DirectoryService

So as host, ping, nslookup, dig etc don’t use the same resolver path as the rest of the OS, we used to always use lookupd for this.
It’s not exactly the most obvious solution in the world, but since lookupd, netinfod and memberd were all rolled into DirectoryService in 10.5, we now use dscacheutil to do [...]

MacPort issue when using patch…

After spending a little while banging my head against the wall over this one….

root@snicko [ ~ ]
# port install git-core +svn +bash_completion
—> Applying patches to perl5.8
Error: Target org.macports.patch returned: shell command ” cd “/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_perl5.8/work/perl-5.8.8″ && patch -p0 < ‘/opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/lang/perl5.8/files/patch-makedepend.SH’” returned error 2
Command output: Get file makedepend.SH from Perforce with lock? [y]
Perforce client error:
Connect to [...]