Mac_OS_X

MAC OS X

I need the Mac stations to have identical setups to the debian servers so that they can join the ZEO load-balancing act

Meanwhile, a nice quick way to offload some of the big folders would be nice:

Procedure for off-loading some of the main ZODB onto imacs on the intranet

export folder to be offload , let's say: bigfolder.zexp
transfer (via rsync, or ftp) /var/lib/zope/var/bigfolder.zexp to the imac as /Applications/Zope/import/bigfolder.zexp (may vary according to the way zope was installed on your imac)
import bigfolder.zexp into the imac's zope server

go to the original zopesite's apache server and add new directives:

 RewriteRule ^/imac(.*) http://imac:8080/$1 [L,P]
 RewriteRule (the old URL for bigfolder) (the new URL for bigfolder) [L,P]

add a siteroot to the imac zope site
adjust acl_users or syncronize authentication systems
verify and test that the old URL still goes to the right place

you may need to synchronize the Products and Extensions folders in the imac and restart zope in the imac:

 #!/bin/bash
 # assuming you have bash installed in the imac
 cd /Applications/Zope
 export INSTANCE_HOME=/Applications/Zope
 export SOFTWARE_HOME=/Applications/Zope/lib/python
 export PYTHONPATH=/Applications/Zope/lib/python2.1:/Applications/Zope/lib/python2.1/site-packages
 python2.1 z2s.py -u nobody -S -w8080 -y8443 -W 8081 -Y 8444 -f 8021  -D
 cd -

Bugs: in ZMI, the breadcrumbs render URLs differently from rest of zope. I have seen this talked about in the zope mailing list and "google cached lost thread": google cached lost thread

Notes

the fink product supposedly provides debian utilities to the imac world
the equivalent to /etc/init.d/ seems to be /Library/StartupItems
emacs and pico are available on the CLI on imacs as shipped OS X 10.1
it appears that OS X tradition is to store packages in /Users/Shared

bash is not default (tclsh is). to make bash default for a user:

 sudo niutil -createprop / /users/username shell /bin/bash
 #where "username" is each user you want to include (including root).

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