At 14:58 -0500 12/3/02, Jerry LeVan wrote:
If you're running 10.2, just use Disk Utility on your boot drive, click on the First Aid tab, and use the Repair Permissions facility. This was added because of various third-party installers and other programs that keep changing the permissions on / and other directories.This morning when I tried to send some mail I was kept getting failure messages.Reading mail was OK. Mail log asserted localhost had refused connection. After some putzing around I noticed that "/" was owned by me and had all permissions turned on! System and System/Library seem to have suffered a similar fate. I started getting mail failures at about the same time I installed the"eUSBSmartmedia" upgrade package. I changed the owner/permissions of "/" to drwxr-xr-x 51 root admin 1734 Dec 3 13:56 / That seemed to get mail going again, ( I set Don't Blame Sendmail ) Could someone :) email a copy of a long directory listing of "/" and also include the owner/permissions for the /System/Library directory?
You can use the "Verify Permissions" button first to see everything it'll do.
adam
