1Here some unconfirmed instructions for how to setup Amd on a MAC OS-X 2machine. Please direct all comments about this information, as well fixes, 3updates, and corrections to the am-utils mailing list (see 4www.am-utils.org). 5 6Thanks, 7Erez. 8 9--cut--here----cut--here----cut--here----cut--here----cut--here----cut--here-- 10 11 12Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 06:53:50 -0800 13From: Kevin Layer 14 15The stock amd didn't work for us in Mac OS X 10.3. 16Here's how we installed am-utils-6.1-20031025: 17 18./configure --prefix=/usr 19make 20make install 21 22Create /System/Library/StartupItems/AMD with the files: 23 24AMD 25Resources/ -- copy from other directories in .. 26StartupParameters.plist 27 28Then, make sure that AMDSERVER=-YES- is added to /etc/hostconfig. 29 30******************* the file AMD: 31 32#!/bin/sh 33 34## 35# Start AMD 36## 37 38. /etc/rc.common 39 40if [ "${AMDSERVER:=-NO-}" = "-YES-" ]; then 41 ConsoleMessage "Starting AMD server" 42 43 if [ ! -f /etc/amd.conf -a -r /etc/amd.conf.template ]; then 44 cp /etc/amd.conf.template /etc/amd.conf 45 fi 46 if [ ! -f /etc/amd.map -a -r /etc/amd.map.template ]; then 47 cp /etc/amd.map.template /etc/amd.map 48 fi 49 /usr/sbin/amd 50fi 51 52******************* the file StartupParameters.plist: 53 54{ 55 Description = "AMD server"; 56 Provides = ("AMD"); 57 Requires = ("Resolver"); 58 OrderPreference = "None"; 59 Messages = 60 { 61 start = "Starting AMD server"; 62 stop = "Stopping AMD server"; 63 }; 64} 65 66******************* 67 68With the beta's of 10.4 (64-bit) we're having issues with realpath() 69and amd mounted directories, but hopefully this is just a bug that 70they'll fix. 71 72-- 73Kevin Layer http://www.franz.com/ 74 75