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ccache and OS X

Recipe: ccache on OS X

method:

curl -O -- http://samba.org/ftp/ccache/ccache-2.4.tar.gz
tar -xzvf ccache-2.4.tar.gz
cd ./ccache-2.4
./configure --prefix='/usr' --mandir='/usr/share/man'
make
sudo make install

Simple.. I will at sometime create a installable dmg for everyone.

Facebook and Me…

Well I was persuaded by Andy to get a facebook account.. So I’m on with great success and even found some past work colleges I’d lost touch with… If you have a facebook a/c feel free send me a message via the wall..

Still working on my ipv6 talk for SAGE-AU… Mircosoft has quite a suprising amount of “eatable” information on ipv6. Can’t wait to find time try out the windows server 2008. native dhcpv6 server and other interesting ipv6 fuctions.

Not to be out done I noticed that ISC has drop in a swag of ipv6 functionality in dhcp 4beta (3.0.5 for fedora test users I think).

Also Happy Birthday Andy…

Itte kimasu

All things SAGE-AU.

For those who are not aware I’m a proud member of SAGE-AU ( The System Administrator Guild of Australia) Queensland Chapter. As the website says: “the network behind the people behind the network”. SAGE-AU is great organisation with very professional and extremely knowledgeable people at it’s core.  The mailing list and monthy talks are worth the membership let alone the discounts from various vendors and other perks.

After being a member for one year, I decided to put my hand up to help with the running of the organisation and  was nominated/voted in as a sage-qld execiutive.

Part of my position is to help with speakers and runnings of the meeting. In contemplating this role, I thought it would be good it get a talk together for the times that vendors could not be organised.  The talk topic I’ve chosen is: ipv6.  As my previous post have mentioned, I’ve being a big fan of ipv6 and would love to see it in consumer homes ASAP.
It has being put to me that writing a paper might be the best way to a good talk.  The only challenge is how I approach the talk?  I definitely know that I want to debunk some urban myths of ipv6 that seem to pop-up as soon as you mention ipv6.

Once I have something substantial I would post it accordingly under Creative Commons.

Itte kimasu

5 Improvements to OS X Server I’d like to see in Leopard (10.5).

My new job exposes me to the inner workings of Apple OS X Server on a very intamit basis. Alot of the times I’m doing work that isn’t well documentated or isn’t as quite straight forward as is says in the book. This means I generally have to hand edit configurations in OS X Server. From these experiences I’d like to see the following addressed.

  1. Remove bootpd as the DHCP server and replace it with ISC DHCP. I could talk quite litterley talk for days on this issue along. Tftpbooting other OS’s would be easier, (secure) dynamic DNS would make any admin’s life easier.
  2. Allow custom configurations of services. Imagine your trying to secure bind in OS X and decide on using views or even just allow replication of 1 or 2 zones. As soon as you goto serveradmin to restart the services it decides to rewrite the configuration. Also add ipv6 localhost zone to the default setup.
  3. Create an API for serveradmin. I think the Server Monitor and serveradmin are great utilities for OS X Server but it could be better if the community could add to it with other plugins for other services ( think Mysql, PostgreSQL,oracle,asterisk,etc….).
  4. Include sasl tools.. Actually inlcude all tools to any technology that’s used, particularly those that are GPL.. There should be a law against not including debug tools.
  5. Remove dashboard,iTunes and quicktime (unless the server is configured for streaming server)for the server installs. This is just extra crap that isn’t needed in a server install and takes up RAM and cpu cycles.

All in all it’s not a big ask. Please Apple. Think about sysadmins

ipv6: 6to4 broken?

I’ve being a big fan of ipv6 for 4+ years. I’ve configured a tunnel at home and decided I wanted ipv6 access at work. Having had mastered the tunnel at home thought I’d give 6to4 a work. 8 hours later and I’m still scratching my head. Is 6to4 broken? I’ve tried to configure it manually and via initscripts and nadda. I’d be interested in hearing from anyone that has it work.