User`s guide

CHAPTER

4 Using Command-Line Tools

Xserve can be conﬁgured remotely using command-line tools and administration

applications designed to support them. This version of Mac OS X Server includes these

new command-line tools:

m Installer Tool

m Software Update Tool

m System Setup Tool

m Network Setup Tool

To conﬁgure a server remotely with command-line tools, you use the Terminal application on

the remote computer.

Using the Terminal Application

Mac OS X Server includes the Terminal application, which you can use to open a shell

command-line session on your computer or a remote computer you are administering. The

Terminal application is located in /Applications/Utilities.

When you open Terminal, you see a prompt that usually includes the name of the local host,

the directory you’re using, your user name, and a symbol. For example:

[patsy6:/usr/sbin] liz%

In this example, patsy6 is the server’s host name, the directory you are working in is

/usr/sbin, and the user name is liz.

The percent symbol (%) is called the prompt. It indicates that you can enter a command.

Press the Return key after you type a command. Depending on what you typed, you could

see a list of information followed by another prompt, or your command will execute and give

you some type of feedback and a prompt, or no feedback and another prompt. No feedback

usually means that the command was executed properly.

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