Eudora Mailbox Cleaner – convert from mac/pc eudora to mail or thunderbird

Eudora Mailbox Cleaner

seems like a nice program to help convert this data. any other way is a pain.

Macenterprise.org – How to have local mac client computers check your xserve for updates, and not Apple’s Servers. No OD binding needed.

Macenterprise.org

The main things I find missing from Apple’s Software Update Server are the abilities to push out updates from server to client, and schedule updating for clients, rather than just let them look at the server. This is the script I came up with to remedy this as best as I can given the current situation.

This script installs all available updates, and reboots if necessary and possible. I check for logged in users, ignoring if an admin is logged in, since I don’t really care if I reboot while they’re the only ones logged in- just end users.

Its purpose was to be run as a weekly cron job, and only installing “approved” updates. To accomplish this, I set all the clients to look to my server at port 8089, using

defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate CatalogURL http://<server>:8089/

For machines testing updates, I set their port to 8088. The server runs predominantly on port 8088, but when an update is ready to be deployed, I stick the server on 8089, and let the script do it’s magic.

However, there’s nothing preventing the software update server to be Apple’s, if you want to immediately deploy everything.