Re: Hello iMac List
Steve I know this. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk (sent using Nokia E71) -original message- Subject: Re: Hello iMac List From: Steve from Raleigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 15/11/2008 02:12 According to the (free) application MacTracker, the only eMac rated at 1.25Ghz was known as the eMac (USB 2.0) and it uses a G4 chip--to be precise, PowerPC 7447/7457 (G4) FYI, it was introduced April, 2004 and discontinued Mauy, 2005. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Forgetting Wireless
Hi I recently updated my wireless settings on my router. I changed the SSID, moved from WEP to WPA and set it to hidden SSID. I have four Macs and a phone connected wirelessly. 2x eMacs running Tiger, an eMac running Leopard and a PowerBook G3 running Tiger, and obviously my Symbian mobile phone. None of the other Macs have a problem, but my eMac running Leopard never remembers the network. When you switch it on, you have to rejoin, yet all the other Macs remember and it is active straight away. I am running 10.5.5 with the latest updates added. Any ideas? Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news, reviews, guides, upgrades, hacks and more... - http://www.nmug.org.uk - webmaster for Norwich Mac User Group - The box said requires Windows XP or better, so I bought an Apple Mac. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Passwords Fail in Admin and User Accounts
On Nov 15, 2008, at 3:26 PM, Al Poulin wrote: On 20 inch aluminum Intel iMac 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo running OS X 10.5.2, my account passwords failed to work in Admin and all Users on the afternoon of Nov 13. I had gone into Admin to install a kids' game. This was a drag to the Macintosh HD and then I dragged to the Applications folder. For the first time since April, I ran Repair Disk Permissions which reported: 2008-11-13 15:49:23 -0500: Permissions differ on private/var/log/ secure.log, should be -rw--- , they are -rw-r- . I ran Repair Disk Permissions again, but the previous problem message did not reappear, and there were no new ones. Why did you do this? Nothing changed on your machine that would require RP. I closed Disk Utility and launched OnyX v.1.9.3; my Admin password was rejected. With fast user switching to a User account, its password failed. Passwords failed for two other accounts. Still in Admin, and working a hunch that I could make a text change in secure.log, I launched Console, highlighted secure.log and got a message saying I had no permission to see the log. That's because Repair Permissions borked the file. Using the OS installer DVD, I could not restart from Admin with the C key, ? If this is an issue the system is messed up, or your keyboard is malfunctioning. nor could I see a way to eject the DVD. Looking back, I did not try using the on/off switch to restart. At that point, I just wanted to keep things running. Going back to the Guest account, I could eject the DVD. Still in Guest and reinserting the DVD with the C key down, I got the DVD installer window for the first time, but the Macintosh HD was still the boot disk. Your keyboard is acting up. This has happened to me a few times with the new keyboards, but I thought that since I was using them on older systems they weren't properly recognized. I got around that by sticking an old KB on and restarting,. After using the DVD's UtilitiesReset Password on each account, all was well. I ran the maintenance scripts (cron jobs) with OnyX. However, I still could not open secure.log. With several attempts on Nov 13, that log was grayed out, and I shut down for the night. Early on Nov 14, secure.log was still grayed out. Later, I opened the log which showed this in the first line: Nov 14 21:26:51 Macintosh newsyslog[635]: logfile turned over due to size100K What happened? Why did the passwords stop working? I think you had a major keyboard fart, possibly Hmmm, does a log control access? secure.log records administrative access requests and results. if it cannot be written to things can be messed up, but all you changed was your own ability to read it, since root owns the processes that control it. Where is the file that needed fixing? Not sure. Why couldn't I check secure.log? The secure.log SHOULD have -rw-r...permissions, root owns it. Since you're not root you need to have group -based rights to read it (admin) On my machine: the-pismo:~ johnson$ cd /private/var/log the-pismo:log johnson$ ls -l secure.log -rw-r- 1 root admin 96182 Nov 15 14:26 secure.log File permissions are (simply put) -rwx rwx rwx and proceed from left to right: Owner-Group-World, the r stands for 'read', w for 'write' and x for 'execute' rights. When the file was -rw-r- that meant the owner had read and write permissions, and the group had read permissions. Looking at my machine the owner of the file is root, and the group is admin (or administrative users) When Permissions Repair changed it to -rw--- that meant only root could read the file. An admin users rights to read the file derive from the group permissions, and since the group now had no rights, you couldn't read the file. This had NOTHING to do with the passwords being messed up..something else happened to cause that, and I'm not sure what...I've never run into this problem before. -- Bruce Johnson U of Az College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions don't have opinions, merely customs --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Passwords Fail in Admin and User Accounts
On Nov 15, 6:58 pm, Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 15, 2008, at 3:26 PM, Al Poulin wrote: I had gone into Admin to install a kids' game. This was a drag to the Macintosh HD and then I dragged to the Applications folder. For the first time since April, I ran Repair Disk Permissions which reported: 2008-11-13 15:49:23 -0500: Permissions differ on private/var/log/ secure.log, should be -rw--- , they are -rw-r- . Why did you do this? Nothing changed on your machine that would require RP. Only because of the failure of the first drag install to put the game into the Applications folder. Also, because I had not run it for seven months. I've had another app, Reunion, go directly into the Applications folder when first dragged to Macintosh HD. I launched Console, highlighted secure.log and got a message saying I had no permission to see the log. That's because Repair Permissions borked the file. Still in Guest and reinserting the DVD with the C key down, I got the DVD installer window for the first time, but the Macintosh HD was still the boot disk. Your keyboard is acting up. This has happened to me a few times with the new keyboards, but I thought that since I was using them on older systems they weren't properly recognized. I got around that by sticking an old KB on and restarting,. Oh, oh, I'm using the old white keyboard A1048 because the new flat key board that comes with this aluminum iMac does not tell my fingers where they are. I should have retrieved the new one while troubleshooting. What happened? Why did the passwords stop working? I think you had a major keyboard fart, possibly When Permissions Repair changed it to -rw--- that meant only root could read the file. An admin users rights to read the file derive from the group permissions, and since the group now had no rights, you couldn't read the file. You've thrown a great deal of light on obscurity, thank you. This had NOTHING to do with the passwords being messed up..something else happened to cause that, and I'm not sure what...I've never run into this problem before. So the password glitch is due to the keyboard or possibly the Repair Permissions itself? Al Poulin --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
