{"id":8,"date":"2006-05-31T22:02:29","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T05:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dreness.com\/blog\/archives\/8"},"modified":"2006-05-31T22:35:13","modified_gmt":"2006-06-01T05:35:13","slug":"remote-server-setup-get-stuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/archives\/8","title":{"rendered":"Remote Server Setup get stuck?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was using Server Assistant to do a remote setup of Mac OS X Server, and for some reason Server Assistant hung. When I relaunched it, the target server would not allow me to start over or continue the remote setup, claiming that it was already being remotely configured (clearly it didn&#8217;t notice that Server Assistant barfed).<\/p>\n<p>I SSH&#8217;d to the server as root \/ [first 8 chars of serial number] and begun to poke around. Typically, OS X leaves little breadcrumbs in certain areas of the filesystem as state indicators, such as \/var\/db\/.AppleSetupDone which is created after you go finish the setup assistant. However, this file was not there on my target server (and it shouldn&#8217;t have been, since I never did actually finish the setup). There was also no &#8216;setup in progress&#8217; file in \/var\/db. After running fs_usage -w for a brief minute, I found what I was looking for: \/System\/Library\/ServerSetup\/.RemoteSetupInProcess. After nuking this, I was able to start again with the remote setup, and all is well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was using Server Assistant to do a remote setup of Mac OS X Server, and for some reason Server Assistant hung. When I relaunched it, the target server would not allow me to start over or continue the remote &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/archives\/8\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-os-x-server"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}