On Thursday, January 6, 2005, at 03:56 PM, James Morgan wrote:
In my opinion permissions are a pain in the whatchacallit in OS 10.3. I have three G4's running OS 10.3.7. One refuses to send email several times a week unless the permissions are repaired. The other two occasionally won't let me move files from one folder to another over the network until permissions are repaired. Apple has wasted a lot of my time with this permissions thing.
This is weird. We have some 30 or so Macs running 10.3 at work, many of which are shut down daily, and no one has reported such a problem.
Have you upgraded it stepwise from 10.3 to 10.3.7? Perhaps installing the 10.3.7 combo updater will fix these problems. I know that this cured other problems I've had with systems in the 10.2 days.
Does this happen to another user on the same machine? Set up a new test user, set up their mail account the same as yours, and if you have problems sending, you can do a fast user switch to this user and try to send a message. This will at least narrow the search to either a system problem or a user problem.
I don't religiously repair permissions, I repair permissions so I can get my work done. What I don't understand is why permissions are continually changing and continually needing repair? I don't have any other problems with any of the three G4's. Just permissions.
I don't know. All I can say is that it IS unusual in my experience both using OS X daily and adminning a bunch of OS X boxes.
Are there entries in the system or console log when the send fails?
Are the same files being fixed all the time when you run repair permissions?
If we can identify the exact files causing the mail failure, a shell script to periodically check the permissions on those files could be written to identify when these permissions are changing.
You're not normally running as the user 'root' are you? That causes all sorts of odd problems with OS X....
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