[OT}Arrgh, Something has gone wrong with my permissions
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? Thanks, Jerry
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: [OT}Arrgh, Something has gone wrong with my permissions
At 14:58 -0500 12/3/02, 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? 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. You can use the Verify Permissions button first to see everything it'll do. adam
Re: [OT}Arrgh, Something has gone wrong with my permissions
Actually, the fastest fix (on Jaguar) is to boot from the CD and run Disk Utility (the Fix Permissions part of the First Aid tab. On 12/03/2002 12:05, Phillip Burk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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]
