Re: macosx list?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Not alot of noise, a good assortment of users that have a good deal of experience. On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 01:53 PM, Deshazer, Earl (GEAE) wrote: That Makes two of us. I would like to subscribe to that list as well. Thanks -Original Message- From: Riccardo Perotti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 12:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Subject: OT: macosx list? Sorry for the OT, but I've been looking for a MacOSX mailing list, like this one but not perl-only. Somewhere one could ask / discuss about apps, darwin, etc. Does anybody know where to find one? Thanks Riccardo -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.riccardoperotti.com Phil Burk Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. 10475 Crosspoint Blvd Indianapolis, IN 46256 317.572.3049 phone 317.572.1049 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT}Arrgh, Something has gone wrong with my permissions
On Tuesday, December 3, 2002, at 02:58 PM, Jerry LeVan wrote: 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 theeUSBSmartmedia 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? Jerry, Run the Repair Privileges tool in Disk Utility instead. It's under the First Aid tab. You can copy the log out of the display window and save it in case you have some unique privs settings on your box. Phil Burk Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. 10475 Crosspoint Blvd Indianapolis, IN 46256 317.572.3049 phone 317.572.1049 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OS X meltdown
On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 12:29 PM, Trey Harris wrote: In case anyone wonders (or cares), I ran DiskWarrior last night, and after twelve hours (!) of repair, my machine came back behaving much more nicely. At the very least, I could once again use the Finder. I also ran the Disk Permissions Repair. 12 hours? Wow, that drive had problems... tell me, were there overlapped/crosslinked files? Unfortunately, the fonts are still all missing from the system, and no amount of dragging them into and out of the Fonts folder makes any difference, sigh. Everything is *much* more speedy when running with just the ten default system fonts, however--300+ installed fonts seems to really bog things down. It's the price you pay for having a professional designer as a spouse... Do yourself a favor and invest in a font management utility like Suitcase or Font Reserve. This way your wife can set up font sets organized how she sees fit (job, client) and you won't have the overhead of all of those fonts. BTW, I don't know if your performance improvement is due to fewer fonts being active but rather to the elimination of a problematic HDD. Ah well, I came to OS X as sort of a Linux refugee. I guess I'm trading off the immense amount of time you can spend fixing Linux problems for the fact that on a proprietary OS you sometimes *can't* fix all your problems Unfortunately, not yet. OS X is *alot* more forgiving about dealing with corrupted hard drive directories and fragmentation. In many cases under OS 9 and earlier the system just wouldn't boot. That may actually have been better as it would force one to repair the corruption. It appears that under OS X the forgiving nature of the OS towards the HDD creates a ton of problems. I am completely ignorant of the advantages of a journaled FS. To steer this thread even further OT, perhaps someone more enlightened about JFSes could elaborate a bit? Phil Burk Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. 10475 Crosspoint Blvd Indianapolis, IN 46256 317.572.3049 phone 317.572.1049 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OS X meltdown
On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 01:12 PM, Trey Harris wrote: In a message dated Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Bruce A. Burdick, Jr. writes: You could have a bad hard drive. That might explain the behavior you are seeing. Wiping the drive and reinstalling OS X may work. But if it's the drive, you're not out of the woods. Yeah, but this whole episode was presaged by a spinning-beachball-of-death attack. One of those where a seemingly innocuous click on a menu starts the spinning ball in one app, and then over the next minute or two, the spinning ball spreads to every other app, you can't logout--you can't pull up a logout dialog--attempts to ssh in never respond, etc. This happens with some regularity to me, and the only answer seems to be to just powerdown. Am I the only one who sees this? It must happen once a month or more, though it seems to be somewhat rarer with Jaguar than it was with 10.1. *That's* what caused the hour-long fsck, I think--cycling power on a running machine. Maybe there's disk problems too, but I don't want to think about that yet... Trey, I would try two things before doing anything drastic like wiping that drive. Boot the machine with a DiskWarrior CD and run that utility. If there are any problems with the HDD they'll be gone. Period. Then I would open Disk Utility and run the repair privileges utility. If anything's wacky with the base system (and it is in your case) this will reset the privs to their installed state. If you're not familiar with this util, it'll only touch the Apple-installed stuff on your box, not anything in /Users or other apps you've installed. Good luck. Phil Burk Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. 10475 Crosspoint Blvd Indianapolis, IN 46256 317.572.3049 phone 317.572.1049 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
