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Sarabian

Server 10.5

Reply by Sarabian

(May be out of the scope of the site, but I wanted to see if I was alone in this)

Is anyone else using OS 10.5 Server? I have the 10-user version.

I'm having the strangest issue with it on my new Mac Mini and OSX Server. I did a base install and enabled Web Services, iCal, Mail, and iChat. I only did the install and didn't try to pre-configure anything. I did this 9 times. Every time I did it, one of the services was broken. The first few times I tried to diagnose and fix them, but nothing worked. After that I just wiped and reinstalled. On the 9th time everything seemed to be working fine.

Since then whenever I do an update that requires me to restart, something is broken on restart. This last time the wiki and user blogs were just gone. My blog said "User is not allowed a blog." Then after 2 days they just appeared again.

The hardware is a brand new 1.8GHz Mac Mini I got just before they updated them. No upgrades were done to it. I installed it to an old G5 iMac before the Mini arrived just to play with it and see the new features. The install went perfectly fine the first time and had zero issues in the 5 or 6 days it was on it. Maybe I should just use the old iMac? It's getting annoying because I depend on that machine daily.

Kyle Wiens

Reply reply by Kyle Wiens

I sympathize with your OS X server pain. We used it for a long time until I got fed up and moved to Linux.

Your final issue sounds like an apache config issue. I would avoid the GUI entirely and look at the apache config files and error logs. What errors does apache have in /var/log/httpd/error_log?

Apple is *terrible* at writing GUIs to manage text files. Once you start making changes to certain text files it can break access to the UI, but it's generally worth it for the control and transparency.

Sarabian

Reply reply by Sarabian

I love OS X Server, it's just this version of it that's giving me headaches. I've been so busy lately I haven't done the .7 patch, but I'll do that here in a couple minutes and see if that helps things out.

The Server Admin program is great when it works, but I've had it flake out a few times. I'm learning more about the command line, but I like to use SA remotely when I can.

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