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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? If possible, would you consider buying OS X for a non Mac computer? Post 302286866 by Neo on Thursday 12th of February 2009 06:52:36 AM

02-12-2009

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Hey tlarkin!

Thanks for the great post.

When I talk about installing packages on "a remote server", I am talking about an environment where no GUI is possible. The server is only configured from a SSH connection.

I am not sure, and you are free to correct me, but I don't think OS X is the best choice for this type of "SSH-only command line remote admin" installations.

In your post, you conclude:

Quote:

I intalled TomCat, PHP 5 and MySQL on one of my servers through an installer package and it took all of 3 minutes to do so. Then configured it through the GUI. I just now need to brush up on my mysql command line abilities and I will be set.

Are you saying that you can install and run these packages and configure completely from the command line without the GUI, via SSH, just like a Linux server?

Honestly, I only use OS X as a desktop and when I find a package like MAMP (LAMP for OS X) it seems to require a GUI click-and-install approach. Even the directions for install do not discuss any OS X "pure command line" linstallation approach.

Are you saying you can do 100% remote install, upgrade and configuration vis SSH? Yes or No? Thanks.

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hp-search-mac

HP-SEARCH-MAC(1)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					  HP-SEARCH-MAC(1)

NAME

       hp-search-mac  -- HP switch search tool.

DESCRIPTION

	HP-search-MAC is an util that can query HP switches for their
	connection table. It then allow you to search for a MAC address and tell you
	where it is physically connected (best match first).
	.
	The functionality is similar to traceroute but on Ethernet level and only
	for HP switches.

USAGE

       hp-search-mac [options] [MAC] [...]

OPTIONS

       hp-search-mac [options] mac [ [options] mac ] [...]

       options:
	 --dl n 	  Set debug level to n.
	 --help 	  Print this help.
	 --hostname host[=>community] | -h host[=>community]	       Set a switch name to search. You can also set this in
		       /etc/hp-search-mac.conf or ~/.hp-search-mac.conf.	    The hash to set is \%switches.

       Mac:
	 You can use some different formats:	  ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff (hex)      ff-ff-ff-ff-ff-ff (hex)

	       0.123.0.12.0.12.0 (dec)

       CONFIGURATION:

       \%switches:	This is a normal perl hash of the form	    \%switches = ("host" => "community", ...);

AUTHOR

       Ola Lundqvist <ola@inguza.com>

SEE ALSO

       snmp-walk(1) snmp-get(1)

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