Search Again: Re: MacOS X From: Aaron Lynch Date: Thursday, May 31, 2001 Time: 3:43:32 am On 5/31/01 3:06 AM, The Defendant "Matt Henderson" <matt@makalumedia.com> Confessed: > + The User's Manual certainly wasn't written for any kind > of advanced user, and didn't have answers to any of my questions. > Does Apple provide any sort of advanced documentation? Where > do you go when you have questions like, "Is Apache's VirtualHosts > configured graphically via some tool in the MacOS, or do I need > to modify the httpd.conf file myself?", "If I install PHP, with > this screw up something in the MacOS's view of Apache?" Themacintoshguy.com has several very active lists (which we host btw) that are quite good. To answer your questions: 1. No graphics.. (but webmin compiles easily) Edit httpd.conf yerself, And no, it won't screw up something. But upgrading apache itself certainly might. > + I couldn't even find the root password. Did I overlook something > obvious? There isn't one by default. You can do anything you want with sudo. Or if you really need root, 'sudo su' > > + What are you doing for backups? Presently I'm using Retrospect > to back up the machine. If Retrospect's running under Classic, > can it backup the Unix subsystems, so that a complete disk > restore would be complete? There is a X retrospect beta that works pretty well. You can't use the 9 client though, because your permissions will get munged in a restore. > > Do you know if it would be possible for me to install X on the same machine > I'm running now, in a way that would let me gradually get used to it? > Meaning the following -- somehow I boot into 9.1 during worktime, and then > when I want to experiment with X, I boot into X, and it has access to all my > user documents, but doesn't in any way corrupt my 9.1 system (user > documents, prefs, etc.) so I can always be sure that I can boot into 9.1 and > continue working if I discover some incompatibility in X? I have 9.1 on a separate partition. On newer machines holding down option at boot lets you pick the startup volume. (very handy) But even in the default config, there is a system folder separate from the x system, and so you should always be able to boot to a cd and then get into that folder to restore default extensions. Not much of a concern really, x doesn't seem to mess too much with the 9.1 system.

Messages In This Thread: MacOS X by Matt Henderson on May 30, 2001 at 1:40:10 am Re: MacOS X by Nicholas Orr on May 30, 2001 at 1:55:14 am Re: MacOS X by Martin Fritze on May 30, 2001 at 2:24:13 am Re: MacOS X by Aaron Lynch on May 30, 2001 at 1:52:29 pm Re: MacOS X by Matt Henderson on May 31, 2001 at 3:06:51 am Re: MacOS X by Aaron Lynch on May 31, 2001 at 3:43:32 am Re: MacOS X by Global Homes Webmaster on May 31, 2001 at 10:13:26 am Re: MacOS X by Nicholas Orr on May 31, 2001 at 4:56:43 pm Re: MacOS X by Steve Linford on Jun 1, 2001 at 1:38:15 am Re: MacOS X by Rob Gridley on Jun 1, 2001 at 9:48:41 am Re: MacOS X by Nicholas Orr on Jun 3, 2001 at 3:49:07 pm