At the beginning of May we went to Walt Disney World with our daughter and her family. I’ve posted a few of the pictures I took on Flickr in Best Of Disney 2013
Here’s a small sample:
Carter chillin’ right after they got there
Family portrait. No, the guy with the big ears isn’t related.
When I first set up the new Mac Mini server I knew I wanted to run MySql. Installing it was “interesting” … to say the least. Not really difficult but there is a lot unsaid in the instructions. I may get into that later but, suffice to say, I did get it installed fine.
One thing I wanted, though, was to have MySql start when the system starts. As OSX, server or not, does not use “rc” files or /etc/init.d or even crontab to run periodic tasks I needed to develop an “OSX Native” solution. The MySql documentation references /Library/StartupItems but this is not correct since OSX 10.5.
The acceptable method is through launchd which is actually very powerful but a bit more complex to set up. Although the configuration files [called PLISTs] look complex they are really simple XML files that you can create with any text editor.
You may read about the results, successful I might add, on the page: Using OSX Launchd to run MySql at startup
I haven’t been doing much (ANYTHING!) on greybeard.org in a very, very long time. I decided to dump the old (I have a backup and may bring some of it back) and start over.
This will, as the plan says, be an occasional posting, I’ll try to add something every day but it will probably be every few days. Content will just be my musings and stuff. Mostly technical as I learn about Mac OSX Server (a new Mini sits right here …) and some photography stuff as I wander around. We’ll see.
I hope you enjoy the new look and I also hope that this will be much more active than the past attempt.
Wish me luck!
Bill W
