Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks, 3rd Edition

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By Brian Jepson, Ernest E. Rothman

Publisher: O'Reilly Media

Released: June 2005

Pages: 416

If you're one of the many Unix developers drawn to Mac OS X for its Unix core, you'll find yourself in surprisingly unfamiliar territory. Unix and Mac OS X are kissing cousins, but there are enough pitfalls and minefields in going from one to another that even a Unix guru can stumble, and most guides to Mac OS X are written for Mac aficionados. For a Unix developer, approaching Tiger from the Mac side is a bit like learning Russian by reading the Russian side of a Russian-English dictionary. Fortunately, O'Reilly has been the Unix authority for over 25 years, and in Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks, that depth of understanding shows.

This is the book for Mac command-line fans. Completely revised and updated to cover Mac OS X Tiger, this new edition helps you quickly and painlessly get acclimated with Tiger's familiar-yet foreign-Unix environment. Topics include:

Using the Terminal and understanding how it differs from an xterm
Using Directory Services, Open Directory (LDAP), and NetInfo
Compiling code with GCC 3
Library linking and porting Unix software
Creating and installing packages with Fink
Using DarwinPorts
Search through metadata with Spotlight's command-line utilities
Building the Darwin kernel
Running X Windows on top of Mac OS X, or better yet, run Mac OS X on a Windows machine with PearPC!

Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks is the ideal survival guide for taming the Unix side of Tiger. If you're a Unix geek with an interest in Mac OS X, you'll find this clear, concise book invaluable.

Getting Around
1. Chapter 1 Inside the Terminal
  1. Mac OS X Shells
  2. The Terminal and xterm Compared
  3. Using the Terminal
  4. Customizing the Terminal
  5. The Services Menu
  6. Bonjour
  7. Alternative Terminal Applications
  8. The open Command
2. Chapter 2 Searching and Metadata
  1. Spotlight
  2. Resource Forks and HFS+ Metadata
3. Chapter 3 The Mac OS X Filesystem
  1. Working with Foreign Filesystems
  2. Files and Directories
4. Chapter 4 Startup
  1. Booting Mac OS X
  2. Adding Startup Items
  3. Scheduling Tasks
5. Chapter 5 Directory Services
  1. Understanding Directory Services
  2. Programming with Directory Services
  3. Configuring Directory Services
  4. NetInfo Manager
  5. Directory Services Utilities
  6. Managing Groups
  7. Managing Users and Passwords
  8. Managing Hostnames and IP Addresses
  9. Exporting Directories with NFS
  10. Flat Files and Their Directory Services Counterparts
  11. Restoring the Directory Services Database
6. Chapter 6 Printing
  1. Printer Setup Utility
  2. Common Unix Printing System (CUPS)
  3. Gimp-Print
7. Chapter 7 The X Window System
  1. Installing X11
  2. Running X11
  3. Customizing X11
  4. X11-based Applications and Libraries
  5. Connecting to Other X Window Systems
  6. Virtual Network Computing
8. Chapter 8 Multimedia
  1. Burning CDs
  2. Video
  3. Image Editing
  4. 3D Modeling
9. Chapter 9 Third-Party Tools and Applications
  1. Virtual Desktops and Screens
  2. The Application Menu
  3. Exposé
  4. Virtual Desktops
  5. SSH GUIs
  6. R with an Aqua GUI
  7. NeoOffice/J and OpenOffice
10. Chapter 10 Dual-Boot and Beyond
  1. Why Bother?
  2. Linux on Mac Hardware
  3. Emulators on Mac OS X
  4. Emulating the Mac
Building Applications
1. Chapter 11 Compiling Source Code
  1. Compiler Differences
  2. Compiling Unix Source Code
  3. Architectural Issues
  4. X11-based Applications and Libraries
  5. Xgrid
2. Chapter 12 Libraries, Headers, and Frameworks
  1. Header Files
  2. The System Library: libSystem
  3. libstdc++
  4. Shared Libraries Versus Loadable Modules
  5. Library Versions
  6. Creating and Linking Static Libraries
  7. Creating Frameworks
  8. The Dynamic Linker dyld: Prebinding, the Pre-Tiger Way
  9. Performance Tools and Debugging Tools
  10. CHUD Tools
  11. Interesting and Important Libraries
  12. Numerical Libraries
Working with Packages
1. Chapter 13 Fink
  1. Installing Fink
  2. Using Fink
  3. FinkCommander
  4. Installing Binaries
2. Chapter 14 DarwinPorts
  1. Installing DarwinPorts
  2. Using DarwinPorts
  3. DarwinPorts Maintenance
  4. Installing Binaries
  5. DPGUI
3. Chapter 15 Creating and Installing Packages
  1. Using PackageMaker
  2. Using GNU tar
  3. Disk Images
  4. Creating Fink Packages
  5. Creating DarwinPorts Packages
Serving and System Management
1. Chapter 16 Using Mac OS X as a Server
  1. Getting Connected
  2. Built-in Services: The Sharing Panel
  3. Email
  4. The Mac OS X Firewall
2. Chapter 17 System Management Tools
  1. Diagnostic Utilities
  2. Kernel Utilities
  3. System Configuration
  4. Third-Party Applications
3. Chapter 18 Free Databases
  1. SQLite
  2. MySQL
  3. PostgreSQL
  4. PHP and Perl
4. Chapter 19 Perl and Python
  1. Perl for Mac OS X Geeks
  2. Python for Mac OS X Geeks
Appendixes
1. Appendix A Mac OS X GUI Primer
2. Appendix B Mac OS X's Unix Development Tools
  1. Standard Unix Development Tools
  2. Apple's Command-Line Developer Tools
  3. Macintosh Tools
  4. Java Development Tools
  5. Text Editing and Processing
  6. Scripting and Shell Programming
  7. Working with Files and Directories
  8. File Compression and Storage
  9. Searching and Sorting
  10. Miscellaneous Tools

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Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks, 3rd Edition

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Brian Jepson

Brian Jepson is an O'Reilly editor, programmer, co-author of all editions of Mac OS X for Unix Geeks, and co-author with Dave Taylor on the Jaguar and Panther editions of Learning Unix for Mac OS X. He's also a volunteer system administrator and all-around geek for AS220, a non-profit arts center in Providence, Rhode Island. AS220 gives Rhode Island artists uncensored and unjuried forums for their work. These forums include galleries, performance space, and publications. Brian sees to it that technology, especially free software, supports that mission.

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Ernest E. Rothman

Ernest Rothman is an Associate Professor of Mathematics and Chair of the Mathematical Sciences Department at Salve Regina University (SRU). Like Brian, Ernie has co-authored every edition of Mac OS X for Unix Geeks. Ernie holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Brown University and held positions at the Cornell Theory Center in Ithaca, New York, before coming to SRU. His academic interests are in scientific computing, computational science, and applied mathematics education. As a long-time Unix aficionado, Ernie has enjoyed tinkering with Mac OS X since the day it was first released. You can keep abreast of his latest activities at http://homepage.mac.com/samchops.

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Have you ever wondered where your user accounts or group file are? How do you install X? What's the relationship to BSD? How do you set up an account or group with particular uid or gid? In short, what are the little differences and how do you cope as a Unix or Linux user moving to OS X?

This book is the answer. It describes features which in fact are the differences that a Unix user would notice. If you're from a Unix background, this'll make the peace with OS X.

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As a long-time Mac-user who liked to keep his Unix on Sun machines (and wasn't convinced about OS X) I recently started taking advantage of the Mac OS X's Unix underpinning. Hence I'm not quite the audience that the book's directed at, but I still found several chapters contained information that was most valuable to me.

One small criticism. The section on the built-in Apache web server doesn't tell the Unix geek where to put his html pages - annoying because they don't go in the usual Unix place.

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Getting Around

Chapter 1 Inside the Terminal

Chapter 2 Searching and Metadata

Chapter 3 The Mac OS X Filesystem

Chapter 4 Startup

Chapter 5 Directory Services

Chapter 6 Printing

Chapter 7 The X Window System

Chapter 8 Multimedia

Chapter 9 Third-Party Tools and Applications

Chapter 10 Dual-Boot and Beyond

Building Applications

Chapter 11 Compiling Source Code

Chapter 12 Libraries, Headers, and Frameworks

Working with Packages

Chapter 13 Fink

Chapter 14 DarwinPorts

Chapter 15 Creating and Installing Packages

Serving and System Management

Chapter 16 Using Mac OS X as a Server

Chapter 17 System Management Tools

Chapter 18 Free Databases

Chapter 19 Perl and Python

Appendixes

Appendix A Mac OS X GUI Primer

Appendix B Mac OS X's Unix Development Tools

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