Mac OSX: Nmap 5.0

Many people write about Nmap 5.0 when it is released, here's how I get it work on Mac OSX. If you are installing Nmap 5.0 using MacPorts, then you won't be having zenmap in your pocket, you will only get ncat, ndiff and nmap. Therefore it is best if you can obtain the nmap installation package for OSX from Nmap website and follow the instruction here to get it installed.

Once you have the package installed, you may figure zenmap will not work properly even though you can run it. In fact you need the following software installed to satisfy the dependencies.

shell>sudo port install py25-gtk

shell>sudo port install py25-py2app-devel

It might take a while to get them compiled and installed as they require some of the libraries from X11 as well, if you can get through this stage, then you should be able to run zenmap now -

shell>open /Applications/Zenmap.app


Of course Nmap is rocking in da house -

shell>nmap -V

Nmap version 5.00 ( http://nmap.org )

Peace (;])

Mac OSX: MYSQL Community Server

This is quick one to get Mysql Community Server running on OSX, download it from -

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.1.html#macosx-dmg

Choose the dmg package which works for your platform and OSX version. In my case, I choose Mac OS X 10.5 (x86). So after you have it downloaded, it's all about click click install. Remember to install both Mysql server and its startup item package. You also need to copy the MySQL.prefPane to the right location so that it will show up in your System Preferences -

shell>sudo sudo cp -fR /Volumes/mysql-5.1.38-osx10.5-x86/MySQL.prefPane /Library/PreferencePanes/

To start Mysql server, run -

shell>sudo /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM start

To stop Mysql server, run -

shell>sudo /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM stop

To uninstall Mysql Community Server -

shell>sudo rm -rf /Library/StartupItems/MySQL*
shell>sudo rm -rf /Library/PreferencePanes/MySQL*
shell>sudo rm -rf /Library/Receipts/mysql-*
shell>sudo rm /usr/local/mysql
shell>sudo rm -rf /usr/local/mysql-*

And finally remove this line in /etc/hostconfig

MYSQLCOM=-YES-

All for now, I have been idle for a while and hopefully this is come back to be active me.

Cheers ;)