Some features seem to have been inadvertently removed in the Tiger development and release cycle.
- I can’t get X to work properly: I can run X-based apps locally, but can’t display any from other systems. Nothing to do with the built-in firewall, since I turned it off. I don’t even see any log entrails to work with.
- Also, disk space seems to be in short supply: I attribute this to my music collection to some degree (it takes up half my 30 Gb disk) but also Spotlight’s metadata stores and the swapfiles used by the vm system.
-rw------T 1 root wheel 67108864 May 25 21:47 swapfile0
-rw------T 1 root wheel 67108864 May 26 07:09 swapfile1
-rw------T 1 root wheel 134217728 May 26 07:49 swapfile
-rw------T 1 root wheel 268435456 May 26 13:28 swapfile3
-rw------T 1 root wheel 268435456 May 26 21:00 swapfile4
-rw------T 1 root wheel 268435456 May 28 19:57 swapfile5
That’s a gigabyte right there . . . .
- rsync doesn’t seem to work over ssh as it used to: I use it to back up my music collection and I now have to mount the remote volume with nfs and use rsync to synchronize two local directories, rather than doing it over the network.
- And snmp is broken.
The obvious lesson for me is that I should have bought a fully-loaded PowerBook, but I couldn’t swing it then, still less likely now. More real memory would have meant less vm use and a larger disk would have come standard.
Also, getting used to cron’s deprecated state, in favor of launchd: in 10.4.1, it seems that you can use crontab files, same as always, and they get managed by launchd anyway.
I needed to find that out to get an automount set up. It looks like I am going to have to have my music collection automounted and then run from that, syncing up to the iPod and such. But it feels risky to me to run from what is essentially my backup system. That has to be improved upon. I have my 80 Gb FireWire drive that I may have to employ for this: just plug it in and rsync to it nightly.