Building a universal 10.4.8 image can be very difficult unless you are aware of a lovely package on the Mac OS X 10.4.7 Server DVD, located under
/System/Installation/Pacakges/PPCSupportExtensions.pkg.
This install will make an intel install universal.
A big thank you to John Davidorff Pell for this great tip!
Keep in mind that this will only work with some builds of Mac OS 10.4.8.
Also please not this is probably not officailly supported by Apple.
Using the ulimit command you can specify the number of open files a shell is able to open
This is useful if you have many load-sets which are required to be opened simultaneously.
The Example below allows the shell to open 8000 files
ulimit -n 8000
Mac OSX Hints has a great article detialing the process. However, if you would like to just get on with the modification then :
If you are interested in setting up SSHD logging, then check out this article. Once sshd logging is enabled then logs can be browsed in /var/log/secure.log