Mac OS X for Unix Geeks by Rothman, Ernest E. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Mac OS X for Unix Geeks

Preface

Audience for This Book Organization of This Book

Part I, Getting Around Part II, Building Applications Part III, Working with Packages Part IV, Serving and System Management Appendix

Xcode Tools Where to Go for More Information Conventions Used in This Book Comments and Questions Safari® Books Online Acknowledgments from the Previous Editions Acknowledgments from Brian Jepson Acknowledgments from Ernest E. Rothman Acknowledgments from Rich Rosen

I. Getting Around

1. Inside the Terminal

Mac OS X Shells The Terminal and xterm Compared Using the Terminal

Launching Terminal Windows

Double-clickable shell scripts

The Contextual Menu

Customizing the Terminal

Preferences

Startup Settings Window groups

Customizing the Terminal on the Fly Exporting and Importing Terminal Settings

Saving Terminal settings in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Saving Terminal settings in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

Working with File and Directory Names

Tab Completion Changing Your Shell

The Services Menu Bonjour Alternative Terminal Applications The open Command

2. Searching and Metadata

Spotlight

Performing Spotlight Searches Inspecting a File’s Attributes Managing Spotlight

Apple’s Hiding Places for File Metadata

Unix File System (UFS) Preserving Metadata

3. Files and Filesystems

Sharing Files with Other Operating Systems

Working with Bonjour Troubleshooting

Files and Directories

The Root Directory The /etc Directory The /dev Directory The /var Directory The /System/Library Directory The /Library Directory

4. Startup

Booting Mac OS X

The Boot Loader Initialization launchd SystemStarter Mach Bootstrap Services

Creating Programs that Run Automatically

The startup script The property list

Launching with launchd

Periodic Jobs

5. Directory Services

Understanding Directory Services Configuring Directory Services Managing Directory Services Data

Managing Users and Passwords from the Terminal

Creating a user Creating a user’s home directory Granting administrative privileges Modifying a user Deleting a user

Managing Groups

Creating a group Adding users to a group Deleting a group

Managing Hostnames and IP Addresses

Creating a host

Flat Files and Their Directory Services Counterparts Programming with Directory Services

Working with Passwords

6. Printing

AddPrinter

Adding an IP Printer Creating a Desktop Icon for a Printer Modifying a Printer’s Settings Monitoring Printer Status and Troubleshooting

Printer Sharing The Common Unix Printing System (CUPS)

Printing from Remote Systems

GNOME KDE Manual printer configuration (Linux and Unix) Printing from Linux

Printing-Related Shell Commands

Open Source Printer Drivers

Gutenprint The HP InkJet Server (HPIJS) Project

7. The X Window System and VNC

Installing X11 Running X11 Customizing X11

Dot-Files, Desktops, and Window Managers X11 Preferences, Applications Menu, and Dock Menu

Input Output Security Customizing X11’s Applications menu

X11-Based Applications and Libraries

X11 and the Rest of Mac OS X TKAqua

Connecting to Other X Window Systems

OSX2X

Virtual Network Computing (VNC)

Launching VNC

VNC and SSH

Connecting to the Mac OS X VNC Server

X11-based VNC servers Aqua-based VNC servers

Screen Sharing with iChat Restarting VNC Connections

8. Third-Party Tools and Applications

Frontends for SSH and SFTP

Cyberduck Fugu SSH Agent

Mounting SSH Servers As Network Volumes TeX

Installing MacTeX TeXShop LaTeXiT

R with an Aqua GUI Open Source Replacements for Microsoft Office Video

Open Source Video Players

Image Editing 3D Modeling

9. Dual-Boot and Beyond

Why Bother? Linux on Mac Hardware

Partitioning for Linux Installation and Configuration Linux on Older Macs Mac-on-Linux

Emulators on Mac OS X

Getting a Linux Installation Disk Image Parallels VMware Fusion Virtual PC VirtualBox QEMU

II. Building Applications

10. Compiling Source Code

Compiler Differences Compiling Unix Source Code

The First Line of Defense Host Type

Macros

Supported Languages Preprocessing Frameworks

Framework structure Including a framework in your application

Compiler Flags

Architectural Issues

Universal Binaries for Multiple Architectures AltiVec 64-Bit Computing Endianness Inline Assembly

X11-Based Applications and Libraries

Building X11-Based Applications and Libraries AquaTerm

11. Libraries, Headers, and Frameworks

Header Files

Precompiled Header Files malloc.h poll.h wchar.h and iconv.h dlfcn.h alloc.h lcyrpt.h and values.h

The System Library: libSystem Shared Libraries Versus Loadable Modules

Building a Shared Library Dynamically Loading Libraries Two-Level Namespaces

Library Versions Creating and Linking Static Libraries Creating Frameworks Performance Tools and Debugging Tools CHUD Tools Interesting and Important Libraries Numerical Libraries

III. Working with Packages

12. Fink

Installing Fink

Installing Fink from a Disk Image Installing Fink from Source Installing Fink from CVS Post-Installation Setup

Using Fink FinkCommander Installing Binaries Using Command-Line Utilities

13. MacPorts

Installing MacPorts

Installing MacPorts from SVN

Using MacPorts

Creating and Installing Packages in .pkg Format Creating and Installing Packages in RPM Format

MacPorts Maintenance Connecting to the MacPorts SVN Repository MacPort GUIs

Porticus PortAuthority

14. Creating and Distributing Installable Software

Using GNU tar Creating Disk Images

Creating a Disk Image with Disk Utility Creating a Disk Image from the Command Line Distributing Your Image

Internet-enabled disk images

Using PackageMaker

Setting Up the Directory Creating the Package

Creating Fink Packages

Creating and Publishing the Tarball Creating the .info File Installing the Package

Creating MacPorts Packages

Creating and Publishing the Tarball Creating the Portfile Building and Installing a Port

IV. Serving and System Management

15. Using Mac OS X As a Server

Built-in Services: The Sharing Preference Pane

File Sharing

Manual Samba configuration Manual FTP configuration

Web Sharing

dav_module (mod_dav) ssl_module (mod_ssl) php4_module (mod_php4) bonjour_module (mod_bonjour)

Remote Login Screen Sharing and Remote Management Printer Sharing Internet Sharing

ifconfig ipfw/natd bootpd named

Xgrid Sharing DVD/CD Sharing

The Email Server

Configuring Postfix to Send Email Configuring Postfix to Receive Email

The Mac OS X Firewall

Manually Configuring ipfw

Enabling firewall logging Enabling stealth mode Adding your own rules

Free Database Servers on Mac OS X

MySQL

Compiling MySQL Installing MySQL Configuring MySQL Using MySQL

PostgreSQL

Compiling PostgreSQL Installing PostgreSQL Adding the startup item Configuring PostgreSQL Using PostgreSQL

Database Support in PHP and Perl

The Outside World

Dynamic DNS Serving from Behind a Firewall

Port mapping with an AirPort Base Station

16. System Management Tools

Diagnostic Utilities

top fs_usage lsof latency sc_usage vm_stat

Kernel Utilities

ddb DTrace Kernel Module Utilities sysctl

System Configuration Utilities

scutil defaults nvram

Third-Party Applications

17. Other Programming Languages: Perl, Python, Ruby, and Java

Perl for Mac OS X Geeks

Mac::Carbon PerlObjCBridge.pm Mac::Glue

Python for Mac OS X Geeks

Carbon Appscript PyObjC

Ruby and Rails for Mac OS X Geeks Java for Mac OS X Geeks

Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE)

A. Mac OS X GUI Primer

Overview of the Aqua Desktop Making the Most of Your Desktop Space

The Application Menu Exposé Spaces

Index About the Authors Colophon

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