A couple of Leopard upgrade questions...

Jerry LeVan jerry.levan at eku.edu
Thu Nov 1 14:52:30 PDT 2007


For reasons that are not entirely clear to me I choose to
do an upgrade to Leopard Client instead of an archive and
install.

I commented here earlier about some of the problems that
ensued...

I eventually was able to get everything running but have
a couple of questions.

1) postfix and www are know as _postfix and _www
    for www I have:

[mbp:~]$ dscl . read /Users/www
AppleMetaNodeLocation: /Local/Default
GeneratedUID: 020BB994-C502-4D19-84E8-BFF3E636D8D3
NFSHomeDirectory: /Library/WebServer
Password: *
PrimaryGroupID: 70
RealName:
  World Wide Web Server
RecordName: _www www
RecordType: dsRecTypeStandard:Users
UniqueID: 70
UserShell: /usr/bin/false

Question: Is the introduction of the underscore something new,
           or is this something provoked by the *upgrade*

I had the same problem with postfix and I had to edit the
postfix config file to use _postfix instead of postfix

I also found out the tcl/tk was not upgraded. It still sits
at version 8.4.7 ( I have installed Active States 8.4.16
Tcl/Tk. The active state version is supposed to coexist with
the apple version)

Question: How can I install the updated Apple version ( it is
           version 8.4.16 also);

There is probably not a super rush on this question as 8.4.16
crashes whenever the Tk save file dialog in invoked ;( when
in Leopard.

Thabks


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