Re: Test message (really OS X)

I run a couple of OS X servers and while there is a reasonable GUI for doing most things, I do most of my system management from the command line.

The big differences between managing OS X and Solaris (or linux) that I've seen are in three areas:

1/ Apple replaced init and inetd with a new daemon called launchd. It has its own control program, launchctl, that let's you manipulate it from the command line.

2/ Some configuration files have been transformed from plain text into XML. The move to XML is a result of having GUI interfaces to various configuration files. XML is a bit more tiresome to edit using something like "vi", but it's quite doable. Some of the system level configuration files are binary versions of the original XML to speed up loading. There are tools to convert them to and from text so you can edit the XML.

3/ Many things have been moved around to try and fit Apple's idea of where to put various files.

Many other UNIX bits found on OS X are just ports of open source tools with little to no changes as far as I can see. The server that runs this mailing list is an OS X server using the Apple provided mailman and postfix, both appear to be stock and have the usual configuration files and administrative commands.

On Feb 21, 2011, at 12:41 PM, D G Teed wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Nemo <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> De gustibus and all that.  My preference is OS X.  A wonderful
>> interface and it *is* UNIX.
> 
> Oh?  /etc didn't look at all familiar to me when I took a peek
> awhile ago.  It might have a BSD basis, but it has morphed
> into a different animal.  In my opinion, if it is truely
> a Unix derived system, you don't *require* a GUI to get things done.
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