How do I Start Application Services with launchctl When Apple Mac Leopard Boot Up

If you have MySQL, PostgreSQL, Apache2 or other application installed from Macports, you might want the services auto start during machine start up. You can use launchctl to do it, it’s similar to start up script on FreeBSD on /usr/local/etc/rc.d…

Detect DDoS Source & Destination IP Address with OURMON

We have OURMON running on one of network segment for quite some time, it is very helpful and resourceful when DDoS attack happened, especially to help our customer to find out which destination is targeted on the attack and from…

Restore Missing Menu Bar or Menulet in Mac OSX Leopard

One of my colleague menu bar / menulet is missing on her Max OSX Leopard. The time and date icon, airport icon, battery icon and others all gone missing some where. I refer to the system.log, it seem like systemui…

How to Flush DNS Cache in Apple Mac OSX Leopard

Many of you might not know that beside Microsoft Windows has DNS caching, Apple Mac OSX Leopard does too. In order to flush the cached DNS in your Apple Mac OSX Leopard and get the latest resolve value, you can…