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Learning the Terminal in Jaguar, Part 3 Publish Date: Mar. 21, 2003
Now that you have the regular maintenance cron jobs running at more reasonable times and emailing you their reports, you would probably like to know what those jobs do, and what the reports tell you. Chris Stone tells you in Part 3 of this ongoing series.
Learning the Terminal in Jaguar, Part 2 Publish Date: Jan. 24, 2003
In Part 1, Chris Stone focused on rescheduling default system cron jobs by modifying the system crontab file. Here in Part 2, he shows you how to configure cron to email a report to you each time it runs one of these jobs.
Learning the Terminal in Jaguar, Part 1 Publish Date: Dec. 6, 2002
O'Reilly Mac OS X command line guru Chris Stone is back with another series to help you get comfy with Jaguar's Terminal app. He begins by showing you what's where, and what to do with it once you're there.
Learning the Mac OS X Terminal, Part 5 Publish Date: Jul. 2, 2002
Learn how to have your own crontab run a script regularly and email your reports just like system cron jobs. This provides a free and easy way to ensure that your most important data exists on two drives.
Update to Mac OS X Terminal, Part 3 Publish Date: Jun. 7, 2002
When Apple updated Mac OS X from 10.1.4 to 10.1.5, Sendmail was part of that revision. The procedure that Chris Stone outlined in his Learning the Mac OS X Terminal, Part 3 tutorial no longer worked correctly after the update. Here are the fixes to get Sendmail up and running again in 10.1.5.
Learning the Mac OS X Terminal, Part 4 Publish Date: Mar. 26, 2002
Term files allow you to save individual window settings to a file, which when opened, create a new environment with all of your pre-configured settings. Chris Stone shows you how to make term files sing with Streamripper.
Learning the Mac OS X Terminal, Part 3 Publish Date: Feb. 26, 2002
In parts one and two, Chris Stone helped you get comfortable with Mac OS X's Terminal app. Now he provides a virtual cornucopia of cron-related goodies.
Learning the Mac OS X Terminal, Part 2 Publish Date: Jan. 22, 2002
Earlier, Chris Stone showed you how to reschedule the default system cron jobs by modifying the system crontab. Now in Part 2 he explains how to configure cron to email a report each time it runs one of these jobs.
Pro User's Perspective on the New iMac (and Other Apple Revelations) Publish Date: Jan. 15, 2002
There was plenty to digest at Macworld San Francisco 2002 for the thousands of power users who attended. O'Reilly's Mac systems administrator evaluates the new iMac and other Macworld events in this review for pros.
Learning the Mac OS X Terminal: Part 1 Publish Date: Dec. 14, 2001
The Terminal application in Mac OS X is a new benefit to traditional Mac users, and it's a terrific one. Chris Stone shows you step by step how to get comfortable with the Terminal, and how to accomplish your first task via the command line.
