Questions[osx-snow-leopard](server)

I'm using the Juniper client for OSX ('Network Connect') to access a client's VPN. It appears that the client is configured to not use split-routing. The client's VPN host is not willing to enable split-routing.

Is there a way for me to over-ride this configuration or do sometime on my workstation to get the non-client network traffic to by-pass the VPN? This wouldn't be a big deal, but none of my streaming radio stations (e.g. XM) work will connected to their VPN.

Apologies for any inaccuracies in the terminology.

** edit **

The Juniper client changes my system's resolve.conf file from:

nameserver 192.168.0.1

to:

search XXX.com [redacted]
nameserver 10.30.16.140
nameserver 10.30.8.140

I've attempted to restore my preferred DNS entry to the file

$ sudo echo "nameserver 192.168.0.1" >> /etc/resolv.conf

but this results in the following error:

-bash: /etc/resolv.conf: Permission denied

How does the super-user account not have access to this file? Is there a way to prevent the Juniper client from making changes to this file?

I have an existing infrastructure where accounts are maintained under NIS (yp) with no local unix accounts. Also, all the standard maps including hosts, mail aliases, netgroups, etc...are maintained in this form. Extensive use of the UNIX/Linux automounter with items scattered over the network on NFS servers. There are NO ACLs on any local or shared files. All mail needs to use basically the nullclient sendmail configuration feeding into a different system.

I now have a requirement to integrate an Apple OSX 10.6 system into this environment and make it run seamlessly.

My initial reading and second-hand information seems to indicate that this may not be possible on the native OSX 10.6 system. I'm concerned.

Any ideas as to how to accomplish this task and make everybody happy?

Thanks

PS: I have never used an Apple OSX system.

On OS X 10.6 you do not have iptables, so what is the full solution for this permanently redirect all request sent to port 80 to another port, like 8080?

It has to be persistent.

I'm getting errors whenever I try to connect locally to mySQL on Mac OS Snow Leopard 10.6.4. I'm running mySQL 5.1.46. I can log in using the console. I'm running PHP 5.3.2 and my phpinfo() page is working fine. So I've got PHP running, I can log into the mySQL server using both the console and Sequel Pro.

So I suspected that it was a socket issue. In my /etc directory, I don't have php.ini, I have php.ini.default. So I go in there, and every place I see "default_socket" I change it from:

/var/mysql/mysql.sock

to:

/tmp/mysql.sock

I see it in the following locations:

pdo_mysql.default_socket=/tmp/mysql.sock
mysql.default_socket = /tmp/mysql.sock
mysqli.default_socket = /tmp/mysql.sock

And when I go to connect to phpMyAdmin, I get the following error: Cannot start session without errors, please check errors given in your PHP and/or webserver log file and configure your PHP installation properly.

And when I look in my phpinfo() file, I get the following under mySQL:

mysql.default_socket /var/mysql/mysql.sock /var/mysql/mysql.sock

I restart Apache... heck, I restart the whole computer. Still, nothing. I know mySQL is working, I know PHP is working, but I can't get them talking.

Any help?

I have aliases set up in postfix, such as the following:

[email protected]:    [email protected], [email protected] ...

When an email is sent to [email protected], and any of the recipients in that alias is cc:ed which is quite common (ie: "Reply all"), the e-mail is delivered in duplicates. For instance, if an e-mail is sent to [email protected] and [email protected] is cc:ed, it'll get delivered twice. According to the Postfix FAQ, this is by design as Postfix sends e-mail in parallel without expanding the groups, which makes it faster than sendmail. Now that's all fine and dandy, but is it possible to configure Postfix to actually remove duplicate recipients before sending the e-mail?

I've found a lot of posts from people all over the net that has the same problem, but I have yet to find an answer. If this is not possible to do in Postfix, is it possible to do it somewhere on the way? I've tried educating my users, but it's rather futile I'm afraid...

I'm running postfix on Mac OS X Server 10.6, amavis is set as content_filter and dovecot is set as mailbox_command. I've tried setting up procmail as a content_filter for smtp delivery (as per the suggestion below), but I can't seem to get it right. For various reasons, I can't replace the standard OS X configuration, meaning postfix, amavis and dovecot stay put. I can however add to it if I wish.