You want your root cron script (edit by running sudo crontab -e) to be: 55 * * * * /bin/chown -R somename /home/somename/Dropbox && /bin/chmod u+rw /home/somename/Dropbox Assuming the user is named somename and that /home/somename/Dropbox is the full path of your Dropbox directory. As root user, ~ goes to /root.
Hmm, maybe this helps to debug your issue: Set the log level to debug: sudo launchctl log level debug Tail the system.log: sudo tail -f /var/log/system.log & Try to start your job again: sudo launchctl start org.job-label
Your license for MacOS X only allows it to be run on Apple hardware. Only MacOS X server allows for virtualisation. Both vmware and Parallels have products which support this. It is possible to run MacOS non server in other virtualisation systems however it is not legal to do so. If you ran linux on … Read more
The most basic of answer? No. The OS handles memory management for the user – giving a process as much memory as it requires as it requests it and doesn’t provide a whole lot in terms of being able to modify how the system performs. It doesn’t help a lot with trying to figure out … Read more
I work with LDAP, but not that specific brand of server. First thing I’d try is a search on users pulling all of their attributes instead of restricting it the way your example does. ldapsearch -xLLL -H ldap://server.domain.net \ -b “cn=users,dc=server,dc=domain,dc=net” uid=username1 \* + Often there’s a “memberOf” attribute on the user that lists the … Read more
As of OS X Lion this is supported by the built-in Screen Sharing, if you have set up multiple accounts: Per-user screen sharing You can remotely log in to a Mac with any user account on that computer and control it, without interrupting someone else who might be using the computer under a different login.
With OpenSSH sftp client (which you seem to use), you can use: -R switch to increase request queue length (default is 64) -B switch to increase read/write request size (default is 32 KB) For a start, try to double both: sftp -R 128 -B 65536 user@host It probably does not matter much, which of them … Read more
Try sudo lsof | grep /Volumes/External, where “External” would be the name of your external drive. Are you hosting any services’ data off of that drive?
Edit, as this post still gathers the occasional vote: All of the points below are now irrelevant. With no real Mac Server hardware and the Server software being just a cheap add-on to the client OS X with dramatically limited usability and functionality, newer OS X server versions (10.7+) can’t be reasonably used beyond small … Read more
say “some text” Famously used for getting people back into their apartments, say takes your arguments and reads them aloud through the audio output device.