Month: October 2010

Launching an item on startup in mac

Example message taken during port upgrade ############################################################ A startup item has been generated that will aid in# starting apache2 with launchd. It is disabled# by default. Execute the following command to start it,# and to cause it to launch at startup:## sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.apache2.plist###########################################################

Mac Ports upgrade error Can’t map the URL ‘file://.’ to a port description file (“Could not find Portfile in /”)

When I was trying to upgrade my packages using the macports port command, I got the following error Can’t map the URL ‘file://.’ to a port description file (“Could not find Portfile in /“).Please verify that the directory and portfile syntax are correct.To use the current port, you must be in a port’s directory.(you might …

VMWare 2.0.2 on CentOS 5.4

I have CentOS 5.4 Kernel version 2.6.18-164.15.1.e15 and upgraded my VMWare server to 2.0.2-203138.x86_64 version. Running vmware-config.pl worked fine and the modules loaded successfully. However, when I login into the VMWare console, the vmserver crashed immediately. Looking through various websites and forums, I came across the following solution. I have provided the updated solution according …