[PLUG] Mac OS X for Linux admin -- server

[Roderick A. Anderson]

On 07/05/2012 09:44 AM, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jul 2012, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
>
>> My Google search foo is lacking today.
>>
>> I'm taking on the admin of a server running Mac OS X (10.5.8) so need a
>> good reference for a fairly well experienced Linux systems admin.
>>
>> My Linux distributions of choice are CentOS/Scientific Linux/Fedora
>> (Redhat-ian stuff) with a little Ubuntu/Debian.
>>
>> The biggest issue right now is the init system. How does Mac OS do it.
>> The Redhat based systems use SysV, init.d, etc. I thought the BSD
>> derivatives used an init.d or rc.d Couldn't figure out how to
>> start/stop/reload a service.
>
> See the launchctl(1), launchd.plist(5), and launchd(8) man pages. OS X
> has a concept of daemons that are system-wide and/or per-user.

Thanks Paul.  That explains a couple of things I was reading in some of 
the postings.


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Rod
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