Archive for September 2007

MacOS X Administrators from LDAP

I’ve been building an LDAP single sign-on system (for Linux, Mac and PC via Samba PDC) at $dayjob and I hit a wall with my MacOS X clients: it seemed that admins had to be specified locally. However, I finally found this solution which boils down to running this as root (or sudo) on each […]

Postfix and “noatime” Mounts

Never – ever – mount a filesystem Postfix uses with the noatime option. If you have fast_flush_domains enabled (which is is, by default) and you have a lot of deferred mail for which you’re the relay host, it will cause mail delays because the flush service uses atime to decide when it should refresh the […]