If you want to sync your address book to google, you can do it directly from your address book.
some Leopard macs will not show this options and the following will fix it.
Open terminal
Copy and paste the following:
echo "\"{ Devices = { red-herring = { 'Family ID' = 10001; }; }; }\"" >>
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iPod.plist
quit/start your address book
This is an aggressive fix, but one I had to take after numerous ( thousands ) or syslog errors :
2/3/10 6:08:50 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[407] (com.akamai.client.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
2/3/10 6:08:59 PM [0x0-0x12012].com.adiumX.adiumX[452] (process:452): Json-CRITICAL **: json_node_get_int: assertion `node != NULL' failed
2/3/10 6:09:00 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[407] (com.akamai.client.plist[6584]) Bug: launchd_core_logic.c:4103 (23932):13
2/3/10 6:09:00 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[407] (com.akamai.client.plist[6584]) posix_spawn("/Applications/Akamai/loader.pl", ...): No such file or directory
2/3/10 6:09:00 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[407] (com.akamai.client.plist[6584]) Exited with exit code: 1
I followed this process ( found in mac forums ):
WARNING: “rm -rf” IS A DANGEROUS COMMAND, MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE ERASING !!!
boot to single user : (CMD+Option+S) and run the following commands :
fsck -fy
rm -rf /Library/Caches
rm -rf /Users/YOURUSERNAME/Library/Caches
rm -rf /.Spotlight-V100
reboot
This error was driving me nuts:
ldap_add: Invalid syntax (21)
additional info: objectClass: value #0 invalid per syntax
despite looking at my ldif a hundred times, until I relized my perl script added white space at the end of the line ….
print "objectClass: top\n";
print "objectClass: person \n";
print "objectClass: organizationalPerson \n";
print "objectClass: inetOrgPerson \n";
print "objectClass: mozillaOrgPerson \n";
print "objectClass: evolutionPerson \n";
print "objectClass: simpleSecurityObject \n";
once changed to :
print "objectClass: top\n";
print "objectClass: person\n";
print "objectClass: organizationalPerson\n";
print "objectClass: inetOrgPerson\n";
print "objectClass: mozillaOrgPerson\n";
print "objectClass: evolutionPerson\n";
print "objectClass: simpleSecurityObject\n";
The ldap gods were smiling again, hope this saves someone some time.
While parsing and converting some CSV files to ldif’s I needed a perl script, the Test::CSV module is helpful :
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Text::CSV;my $file = ‘prospects.csv’;
my $csv = Text::CSV->new();
open (CSV, “< ", $file) or die $!;
while (
) {
if ($csv->parse($_)) {
my @columns = $csv->fields();
print “@columns\n”;
} else {
my $err = $csv->error_input;
print “Failed to parse line: $err”;
}
}
close CSV;
one thing to check is that /proc/nfs is there, if not , mount it.
mount -t nfsd nodev /proc/fs/nfsd