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:
quit/start your address book
This is an aggressive fix, but one I had to take after numerous ( thousands ) or syslog errors :
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 :
reboot
This error was driving me nuts:
despite looking at my ldif a hundred times, until I relized my perl script added white space at the end of the line ….
once changed to :
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;