Osx desktop vs osx server disk fragmentation?

does anyone know if 10.5 server is any different than 10.5 desktop regarding disk fragmentation? if server is any better then desktop at minimizing fragmentation, i might just go there...
thanks-

while i never rule out the possibility of hardware problems, in my experiences, hard disk failures have generally had similar symptoms... the symptoms tend to be cyclic retrys for reading, i can here the retries, and the computer has interrupted responsiveness... another type of symptom i've seen with disks that are failing is corrupted files (usually unreadable with a disk error message, reading or writing) poping up... the disks where i've had fragmentation issues, it has always been long continuous reads, but the computer doesn't have any halting in responsiveness... it's mostly slugishness when accessing large files, like starting programs...
although i don't rule out the possibility of a disk problem, the symptoms are matching the later case at the moment... of course, when i eventually try something to address fragmetnation, that should help either eliminate the problem or rule out fragmentation and suggest the latent hardware problem... like the saying goes, there are 2 kinds of hard drives, those that have failed and those that are going to fail...
regarding the suns, they were servers and ran software as well... we had x-windows terminals as well as macs and windoz computers running software on the suns (mostly thru x-windows)... they also were nfs servers for our sun workstations on peoples desks... although we didn't have the bloatware that is ubiquitous these days, we had a fair amout of large simulation software for finite element analysis, circuit simulation like pspice, database software, etc... some people wrote and compiled software on them... they were also our mail servers and our gateways to the rest of the network... i seem to recall framemaker in the mix for a brief time... (not sure what ever happened to that company...) we had 3 servers and about 130 to 140 people in my working area. yes, many of those people were doing lesser activities like email and not running simulation software... but it is still nothing to sneeze at...
although this was toward the start of "the web" much of what is done on computers today had already existed before that... it was just not well known... before there was "chat", unix had "talk"... i've had an "internet" based email since 1985... there were image viewers... i recall seeing the 1st streaming mpegs sometime in the early 90's. of course the internet did not have the bandwith so the streaming mpeg was very slow... but i digress...
one of the most intersting developments i thought was really hypercard on the mac... it was the prototype for the web... it had graphics, scripting, networking access for transfering and displaying information, rudimentary animation, etc.... if it had been multiplatform and an open protocol instead of apple only, that might have been the model for the web... well, i've digressed again...
regarding disk fragmentation, the basic unix partitioning scheme really reduces the disk fragementation issue... that is to format with 3 partitions, 1 for the OS, 1 for the user files, and most importantly 1 for /var for all the temp files that get created and swap space for virtual memory... since the files which come and go and change size a lot are on the /var partition any fragementation from those would be restriced to that partition... since it is changing of files that causes the fragmentation, the temp files which change more freqently often drive the fragementation issue... the occasional reboots tend to clear out the temp files in /var... so with this scheme, the majority of the fragmentation is limited to /var, which is cleared and much of fragmentation isn't normally persisant across reboots...
at least that is my experience... i recognize that others may have different opinions or experiences... thanks for the trip down memory lane... i miss the days when there were standards for how the internet worked before microsoft arrived on the internet and made all these competing non-standard protocols... but that is another topic...

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We have an Xserve Running 10.5.8. We have been having strange issues for some weeks with client's logging in and their desktops being missing. Last Friday I noticed that the backup was not running correctly and I had a student who had lost her work mysteriously too. I decided to restart the server to see what would happen. On restart I cannot log in to the server either remotely or locally because after the white apple with spinner screen the machine goes to a blue screen with no login window. Services are up and running, I can view and use Server Admin and Workgroup Manager, and I can ssh into the server. I have trawled the internet in search of answers but all to no avail. There are some errors in the log but I am not familiar enough with these things to know which are significant to this problem. To further complicate matters the OSX server disk is nowhere to be found, hasn't been seen since well before I arrived on campus. I have ordered Snow Leopard for this machine but would like to get to the bottom of the issues.
I have booted into safe mode from ssh but this has made no change to the situation. I am relatively new to comand line management of macs so please don't assume I know how to use it like an old pro. I am learning rapidly.
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Jul 6 13:37:50 localhost com.apple.launchctl.System[2]: /etc/rc.server: line 55: logger: command not found
Jul 6 13:37:50 localhost com.apple.launchctl.System[2]: kern.maxproc: 532 -> 2500
Jul 6 13:37:50 localhost com.apple.launchctl.System[2]: kern.ipc.somaxconn: 128 -> 2500
Jul 6 13:37:50 localhost com.apple.launchctl.System[2]: kern.maxnbuf: 16384 -> 21000
Jul 6 13:37:50 localhost com.apple.launchctl.System[2]: kern.maxvnodes: 66560 -> 120000
Jul 6 13:37:50 localhost com.apple.launchctl.System[2]: kern.maxprocperuid: 266 -> 1000
Jul 6 13:37:52 localhost com.apple.launchctl.System[2]: launchctl: propertyList is NULL
Jul 6 13:37:52 localhost com.apple.launchctl.System[2]: launchctl: no plist was returned for: /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/nmbd.plist
Jul 6 13:37:54: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Jul 6 13:37:52 localhost com.apple.launchctl.System[2]: launchctl: propertyList is NULL
Jul 6 13:37:52 localhost com.apple.launchctl.System[2]: launchctl: no plist was returned for: /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.samba.winbindd.plist
Jul 6 13:37:54: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Jul 6 13:37:52 localhost com.apple.launchctl.System[2]: launchctl: propertyList is NULL
Jul 6 13:37:52 localhost com.apple.launchctl.System[2]: launchctl: no plist was returned for: /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/smbd.plist
Jul 6 13:37:54: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Jul 6 13:37:52 localhost com.apple.launchctl.System[2]: launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init.d/dashboardadvisoryd.plist
Jul 6 13:37:52 localhost com.apple.launchctl.System[2]: getaddrinfo(): Temporary failure in name resolution
Jul 6 13:37:52 localhost com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.RemoteDesktop.PrivilegeProxy): Unknown key for boolean: EnableTransactions
Jul 6 13:37:52 localhost com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.httpd): Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
Jul 6 13:37:52 localhost com.apple.launchd[1] (org.cups.cupsd): Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
Jul 6 13:37:52 localhost com.apple.launchd[1] (org.ntp.ntpd): Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
Jul 6 13:37:52 localhost com.apple.launchd[1] (org.x.privileged_startx): Unknown key for boolean: EnableTransactions
Jul 6 13:37:55 localhost kernel[0]: formExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/RP01@1C/IOPCI2PCIBridge/P8PC@0/IOPCI2PCIBridge/S AS@2/AppleLSIFusionSAS/SAS Target 052B290A8A98376A@3/IOSCSITargetDevice/IOSCSILogicalUnitNub@0/IOSCSIPeripheralDe viceType00/IOBlockStorageServices/IOBlockStorageDriver/ST380815AS N Media/IOGUIDPartitionScheme/Customer@2
Jul 6 13:37:52 localhost kextd[24]: safe boot detected
Jul 6 13:37:55 localhost kernel[0]: BSD root: disk0s2, major 14, minor 2
Jul 6 13:37:52 localhost kextd[24]: safe boot; invalidating extensions caches
Jul 6 13:37:55 localhost kernel[0]: FusionMPT: Notification = 22 (SAS Discovery) for SCSI Domain = 0
Jul 6 13:37:55 localhost kernel[0]: Discovery condition = 0x00000000
Jul 6 13:37:55 localhost kernel[0]: IPv6 packet filtering initialized, default to accept, logging disabled
Jul 6 13:37:55 localhost kernel[0]: Jettisoning kernel linker.
Jul 6 13:37:55 localhost DirectoryService[25]: Launched version 5.8.1 (v514.28)
Jul 6 13:37:59 localhost kernel[0]: AppleIntel8254XEthernet: Ethernet address 00:1e:52:f3:ca:24
Jul 6 13:37:59 localhost kernel[0]: AppleIntel8254XEthernet: Ethernet address 00:1e:52:f3:ca:25
Jul 6 13:38:06 localhost kernel[0]: Resetting IOCatalogue.
Jul 6 13:38:06 localhost kextd[24]: 0 cached, 287 uncached personalities to catalog
Jul 6 13:38:06 localhost kernel[0]: Matching service count = 0
Jul 6 13:38:06 localhost mDNSResponder mDNSResponder-176.3 (Jun 17 2009 18:57:49)[31]: starting
Jul 6 13:38:08 localhost kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: 3
Jul 6 13:38:08 localhost kernel[0]: ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::getCPU_PSSData - WARNING: _PSS table invalid; ACPI is probably incomplete
Jul 6 13:38:10: --- last message repeated 3 times ---
Jul 6 13:38:10 localhost com.apple.launchd[1] (com.openssh.sshd): Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
Jul 6 13:38:12 localhost kernel[0]: Ethernet [Intel8254X]: Link down on en0 called by enableHardware() --
Jul 6 13:38:13 localhost bootlog[83]: BOOT_TIME: 1309923414 0
Jul 6 13:38:14 localhost com.apple.printservice_LPR_mDNS_Media_A3_Printer[63]: Registering Service Media A3 Printer._printer._tcp port 515 TXT txtvers=1 qtotal=1 rp=Media_A3_Printer pdl=application/postscript ty=$null$
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Jul 6 13:38:14 localhost com.apple.printservice_LPR_mDNS__ITS3_01m[65]: Registering Service Media A3 Printer @ ITS3-01m._printer._tcp port 515 TXT txtvers=1 qtotal=1 rp=_ITS3_01m pdl=application/postscript ty=$null$
Jul 6 13:38:14 localhost com.apple.printservice_LPR_mDNS__ITS3_01m[65]: 13:38:14.436 Got a reply for service Media A3 Printer @ ITS3-01m._printer._tcp.local.: Name now registered and active
Jul 6 13:38:14 localhost com.apple.printservice_LPR_mDNS_HCCSTU_Media_Test_Printer[64]: Registering Service HCCSTU-Media Test Printer._printer._tcp port 515 TXT txtvers=1 qtotal=1 rp=HCCSTU_Media_Test_Printer pdl=application/postscript ty=$null$
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Jul 6 13:38:14 hillcrestmac com.apple.HeadlessStartup[74]: 65:6e:30:00:1e:52
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Jul 6 13:38:15 hillcrestmac named[50]: starting BIND 9.4.3-P3 -f
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Jul 6 13:38:17 hillcrestmac /sbin/nfsd[67]: exports:3: path contains non-directory or non-existent components: /Volumes/Data/Library/NetBoot/NetBootClients0
Jul 6 13:38:17 hillcrestmac /sbin/nfsd[67]: exports:3: no usable directories in export entry
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Jul 6 13:38:19 hillcrestmac fseventsd[75]: log dir: /.fseventsd getting new uuid: 99F02D5F-57A3-4BDE-AC4B-76CC829E92B0
Jul 6 13:38:19 hillcrestmac configd[29]: setting hostname to "hillcrestmac.hillcrest.local"
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Jul 6 13:38:20 hillcrestmac named[50]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#54
Jul 6 13:38:24 hillcrestmac /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow[69]: Login Window Application Started -- Threaded auth
Jul 6 13:38:25 hillcrestmac emond[77]: SetUpLogs: uid = 0 gid = 0
Jul 6 13:38:25 hillcrestmac emond[77]: SetUpLogs: opening /Library/Logs/EventMonitor/EventMonitor.error.log
Jul 6 13:38:26 hillcrestmac com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.portmap[100]): Policy denied Mach service lookup: com.apple.dyld
Jul 6 13:38:28 hillcrestmac /sbin/nfsd[67]: Too many groups for root
Jul 6 13:38:28 hillcrestmac /sbin/nfsd[67]: exports:2: export entry OK (previous errors cleared)
Jul 6 13:38:28 hillcrestmac /sbin/nfsd[67]: Too many groups for root
Jul 6 13:38:28 hillcrestmac /sbin/nfsd[67]: exports:3: export entry OK (previous errors cleared)
Jul 6 13:38:28 hillcrestmac fseventsd[75]: bumping event counter to: 0x34cab (current 0x166) from log file '00000000000347cc'
Jul 6 13:38:28 hillcrestmac configd[29]: AppleTalk startup complete
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Jul 6 13:38:37 hillcrestmac com.apple.KerberosAutoConfig[144]: Couldn't find KerberosClient config record
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Slow as compared to when it was not the Server OS? Slow generally? Or slow Disk Access? Or slow Network Access?
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1. Powered on the MacBook Pro and then hit the Option key.
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3. I then clicked out of the Disk Utility and went into the Recovery Mode by clicking on reinstall the current OS.
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Hi. Because both Mavericks and Windows 8 are still new, they may not be free of error. Apple needs more time to perform more tests to ensure that these two different OS's will work properly without getting in conflicts. If it's posdible, I highly recommand you to downgrade back to Lion or Mountain Lion and install Windows 7 (if you have a copy of it). In my experience, all advises from Genius Bar members and computer articles confirm that Windows 7 will work on Macs with Lion OS. It should also work on Mountain Lion. Besides Boot Camp, you could try to virtualize Windows OS and its applications by using VirtualBox, CrossOver and other VMs. I already have an Oracle VirtualBox but I would like to try Boot Camp since it allows me to enjoy almost all Windows features that may be limited in VMs.

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I will be getting a nice Mac Mini OSX Server tomorrow. I'm not new to networking and I've done over a month of reading the PDF's here that are related to the server and software. I think it's a great tool at a great price.
My question is:
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2) Is there a way that the OSX Server software can pass both the S3 Access Key and Secret Key to S3 to securely access directories on the S3 Amazon Cloud?
I would like to use S3 Amazon Simple Storage as a secured disk space solution that would be reliable a quick. Am I asking too much?
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Mail Setup at OSX Server issues

I have several devices (iPad, iPhone, Desktop and Laptop) that access my email accounts (Personal-POP and Business-IMAP accounts) without any issues.
I'd like to use my Mac Mini OSX Server as a main client to all these emails account and collect emails and distribute it at my local network.
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All suggestions will be welcome.
Edison

OS X Server and most mail servers do not include the ability to collect mail from remote servers, though it is possible to build a somewhat precarious scheme based on forwarding messages from the remote servers involved. Google's mail service and its gmail client do have the ability to retrieve mail from other remote mail servers without resorting to forwarding mail around, but you'd need to integrate something like imapsync or fetchmail to perform this on OS X Server. (Related — my old replies to related questions here in the forums will often mention imapsync, as well.)
In general when running a mail server that's accessible to the Internet, you'll need DNS and also static (fixed) IP from your provider for OS X Server and this is the preferred and most reliable means, this if if you want to send outbound mail through the server, or you'll need to relay your inbound and outbound mail through one of the relay services providers. Static IP and proper DNS can also be a factor when receiving mail from some of the more cautious mail servers around. Failing to have IP and DNS correct mails mail sent from your server can be dropped, and sometimes mail sent to your server will be dropped before being passed to your server.
OS X Server does include some spam- and malware-related capabilities and various Postfix, Amavis, ClamAV and related pieces to keep a lid on most typical spam shenanigans, though you might want additional services or the replacement of the OS X Server mail server with the mail package from Kerio.

OSX Server on a Powerbook?

I have a very small-load server need: We are two designers who want to share a common project folder from remote sites. VPN would seem to be a good approach (more on that below), so I would like to see if I can set up a cheap OSX Server using an old 500Mhz G4 Powerbook. I would attach a FireWire 400 external disk that I already have, so the hardware cost is zero. $500 for the server, and I am there. But:
1) No PowerBooks are listed in the supported hardware requirements, although less-powerful boxes like a G3 tower are. I don't know if this is because it just didn't occur to Apple that anyone would want to use a PowerBook for this, or if there is some intrinsic hardware limitation (lack of 2 NICs? The iMac is listed, and I could probably add one on the CardBus slot anyway.)
Has anyone run OSX Server on a PowerBook, or know of any reason you definitely can't?
2) I have no experience managing servers of any kind, and no time to become very savvy, which is why I am looking at OSX. Hoping that if all I ever want is a simple file server with VPN, it won't become a second job for me and I can just let it run in a closet somewhere. Is this a fantasy?
3) I don't know if the PowerBook will prove to be just too slow for even our relatively low-load needs. It is somewhat pokey running Tiger as an accounting machine now, but acceptable (and I figure a fair amount of that load is Aqua, which shouldn't be giving it a workout when used as a server). Any thoughts?
4) Almost forgot - if there is another solution besides VPN that would require less work, it would be great. We are currently trying out FolderShare, which is kind of perfect (we each have local folders with all project files in them, and FolderShare keeps them synced between machines - like having two "masters") except for one thing - it is notoriously unreliable. Slow incremental changes seem to be working ok, but toss it a 2Gb folder with a few thousand files, and it just seems to lose track of what it is doing and quit syncing altogether, even through restarts.
VPN would allow us to maintain a master project folder on the server, then we would need to design some kind of checkout system, which I am not looking forward to finding, setting up, or administering, either.
Thanks in advance for any and all thoughts.
PowerBook G4 500Mhz/1Gb Mac OS X (10.4.6) Server newbie, long-time small office Mac/Win admin

Thanks for your helpful reply - I am going to take a look at Sharepoints and see if it might be the ticket. It looks promising.
In response to your other questions:
Network setup: We have two locations, one of which would be the host location. We each have simple wifi local networks each using a Qwest dsl router, with NAT, WPA Personal, MAC listing, and SSID turned off. That's about the depth of my network security ability. I hoped that Apple might have a clear walkthrough of how to set up Server for our needs. That was as much plan as I had.
The file sharing has to be as transparent as possible, so standard Finder/Open&Save dialog operations are necessary. That's what is great about FolderShare (despite its critical reliability flaw), and why an FTP solution won't work. We just have hundreds or thousands of file operations every day, and can't take time out to manage files through another app.
Thanks also for the heads-up on configuring the fireall to accept connections from only the standard remote site(s). It would be great to be able to access it from the road as well, but if there is no way to do that without creating a significant security risk, we can live without it. (Is there any way to do so?)
Cheers,
Allen

How do I re-install my Mac OSX Server from scratch

Hi,
I have purchased two MacMini Servers with 10.6 OSX Server software pre-installed.
I have changed the organization as our company name changed and run into license issues.
I want to re-install the Mac OSX Server software and start from scratch. How do I go about this. I tried yesterday for many hours to do so and the new installs are still running into duplicate license issues and other issues. What is the best approach to do re-install? I am willing to erase the internal Hard Disk and boot (with an external DVD optical drive) if that is the best way to go. What are the steps?
I have the original CDs or DVDs and have extra, external hard disks to do a Time Machine backup, etc.
Thanks,
Don

If you are looking to do a nuke and pave of the system, and you have an external optical drive, then yes, that is likely the most direct method. Connect the optical drive, insert the installation DVD, and reboot the system targeting the optical disk as the boot volume (you can do this by holding down the C key or the Option key during startup).
Now, if you do not have an optical drive, you can put the installation disk into another Mac running 10.6 and use the Remote Install Mac OS X application in your Utilities folder.
Hope this helps

Cannot boot from OSX install disk

I need to run disk utility to repair my boot drive.
I am attempting to startup from my OSX install disk. However, I can't seem to get my machine to do this.
My computer recognizes my install disk when it's in my superdrive. It mounts on the desktop and I can read from it.
However, when i go into system preferences>startup disk, OSX does not show my mounted OSX install disk listed as an option. Also, when I hold down C on startup, my machine ignores the command. And when I hold down the Option key on startup, the only startup option shown is my boot drive, not my OSX install disk.
I've tried zapping my p-ram. I've tried booting up in safe mode and then re-trying the above.
I don't know what else I can do, short of typing in scary UNIX command lines.
I'm going completely mental here. Please help me, somebody.
If it makes any difference, I've got gobs of apps installed, notably Adobe CS3, Final Cut Studio, Firefox, MS Office 2004.

Not that this solves the booting problem, but I recommend installing AppleJack, which is free (and does run on Intel). This provides easy commands for doing a disk check in single user mode (it's the same in the end as typing the Unix commands but much easier to use), and it's much faster than booting from the CD (even if you can).
Having installed it, restart holding command-S: after a lot of text you will get the line 'Type Applejack at the prompt' - you simply do this and then it's just a question of typing 'd' to check the disk and so on. (Incidentally do not run it from the Terminal when booted normally: you must use it only in single-user mode.)

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