Articles tagged with leopard

1. Reminder: Reinstall XQuartz After Apple Software Update

   Posted on July 18, 2010 in Software

   I always forget to do this. Long ago I installed XQuartz on my Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) desktop. For the life of me, I can't remember why I installed it. XQuartz replaces the X11 that comes with Mac OS X. I might have done this since XQuartz is …

2. Leopard SSH Slow to Connect

   Posted on September 13, 2009 in System Administration

   Thanks to a hard drive failure, I recently installed a fresh copy of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) on my MacBook. I do a lot of work on remote systems and SSH is my bread and butter. Whenever I tried to SSH into other Macs on my local network …

3. Hard Links Not Working in Rsync Backups

   Posted on June 15, 2009 in System Administration

   I recently devoted one of my Mac OS X Leopard systems to performing backups on the rest of my OS X and Linux systems. As long time readers of Slaptijack know, I use a script to run rsync with the --link-dest command line option set in order to conserve space …