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Leopard Reference Library: Scripting & Automation
Mac OS X Server scripting and automation tools help simplify system administration. System administrators can use these tools to manage users and groups, partition and manage disks, monitor and control Macintosh clients, manage Xserve RAID, and manage Xsan file systems. Administrators can also use command-line tools to administer a server using a UNIX command shell.
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Shell Scripting Primer (HTML) (PDF)
A guided tour of (Bourne) shell scripting, including control structures, numerical computation, regular expressions, subroutines, and error handling.
 Guides 2009-04-08
System Startup Programming Topics (HTML) (PDF)
Explains the boot process used to initialize the Mac OS X operating system.
 Guides 2008-11-19
Apply Firmware Password (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates how to create an Automator Action for System Image Utility.
 Sample Code 2007-06-12
Why is my Ruby on Rails application with FastCGI generating "'load error /etc/irbrc" errors? (HTML)
QA1494: Describes how to resolve an error encountered hosting Ruby on Rails applications on Mac OS X 10.5.
 Technical Q&As 2007-11-28