slapd error in system.log every 10 seconds
I had 2 Leopard servers (one with 10.5.5, one with 10.5.6), both displaying the following messages in the system.log every 10 seconds.
com.apple.launchd[1] (org.openldap.slapd[283]): Exited with exit code: 1 com.apple.launchd[1] (org.openldap.slapd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
New Pages ‘09 now supports Endnote
Today at MacWorld, Apple announced iWork ‘09 and MacResearch just reported that the new Pages now supports Endnote and MathType citations. I know I have quite a few faculty that will be very glad to hear this. Especially the ones that absolutely refuse to use Microsoft Office.
Endnote X2.1 will be required which is currently not yet available as of this writing.
Browser Market Shifting to Open Source?
News is spreading about the NetApplications report showing IE has dropped below 70% market share with Firefox taking just over 20% and Safari at over 7%. I must not have been paying attention because I was assuming IE still had 80-85%. Looks like we’re well on our way to having Open Source dominate browser usage.
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I hope you all had a great holiday!
I decided to move from blogger to WordPress because I wanted to use something that was more extensible and open source and I didn’t want to be tied to a hosted platform. I migrated everything from my former blogspot site and I think I got everything, though some links still point back to there but I’ll get them over time.
Currently, I am using 000WebHost which provides free LAMP hosting with PHP/MySQL, 100GB/mo transfers, 1.5GB disk space. They have gotten pretty good reviews for a free service and so far I’m pretty happy. I do occasionally get “server too busy” errors though, but hey, it’s free!
One of my new years resolutions is to be more active with this site. I hope to post at least twice a week. I have some ideas for article series that will be forthcoming so subscribe to the RSS feed and stay tuned.
Take a look around and let me know what you think.
PPC Not booting from NetBoot Across Subnets package
NetBoot Across Subnets from Mike Bombich has a problem setting the startup disk on a PPC machine when the target is a Leopard NetBoot set. You may see this in your system.log on your NetBoot server:
Dec 29 10:42:08 server tftpd[781]: adding RRQ to cache: 170.140.xxx.xxx,NetBoot/NetBootSP0/DS_MP_2008-12-29.nbi/booter Dec 29 10:42:08 server tftpd[782]: file not found, trying [/private/tftpboot/NetBoot/NetBootSP0/DS_MP_2008-12-29.nbi/boote] Dec 29 10:42:08 server tftpd[782]: file not found, trying [/private/tftpboot/NetBoot/NetBootSP0/DS_MP_2008-12-29.nbi/boot] Dec 29 10:42:08 server tftpd[782]: file not found, trying [/private/tftpboot/NetBoot/NetBootSP0/DS_MP_2008-12-29.nbi/boo] Dec 29 10:42:08 server tftpd[782]: file not found, trying [/private/tftpboot/NetBoot/NetBootSP0/DS_MP_2008-12-29.nbi/bo] Dec 29 10:42:08 server tftpd[782]: file not found, trying [/private/tftpboot/NetBoot/NetBootSP0/DS_MP_2008-12-29.nbi/b]
As you can see, it is looking for the booter file at the root of the netboot set. The problem lies in the postflight script within the nbas.pkg package.
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