snow leopard

Spotlight Indexing

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Shell commands to control Spotlight indexing on volumes.

To only turn off indexing on a volume:

sudo mdutil -i off /Volume/drivename/
To Turn off indexing and remove indices on a volume:

sudo mdutil -E -i off /Volumes/drivename/
To only turn on indexing on a volume:

sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/drivename/
To turn on indexing and rebuild indices on a volume:

sudo mdutil -E -i on /Volumes/drivename/
To only force rebuilding of indices on a volume:

sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/drivename

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How to execute scripts when a user logs into, or out of, an OS X workstation.

Create a hook:

sudo defaults write com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook /path/to/script

See what the login hook is set to:

sudo defaults read com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook

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Collection of assorted issues that came up deploying some OS 10.6 "Snow Leopard" iMacs.

Adobe Acrobat Crashes on OS X With Network Account - an alternative way of achieving this solution, since we have OS X Server, was to use MCX to automatically redirect the folders for network users:

Action - deleteAndCreateSymblink Destination Folder Path - /Users/Shared/9.0_x86/ Folder Path: ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Acrobat/9.0_x86

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Installing ImageMagick on OS X 10.3 (Panther) and OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).

Recommended Libraries

libtiff

wget http://dl.maptools.org/dl/libtiff/tiff-3.8.2.tar.gz tar zxf tiff-3.8.2.tar.gz cd tiff-3.8.2 ./configure make sudo make install
libjpeg

wget http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v7.tar.gz tar zxf jpegsrc.v7.tar.gz cd jpeg-7 ./configure make sudo make install

ImageMagick installation
To get the latest version of ImageMagick: