Re: Update to 10.5.5
Hello Peter, In general, run Repair Permissions after installing or upgrading software. To be accurate, it doesn’t actually repair permissions. Rather, it simply resets permissions. Permissions stay the way they are set until someone or something comes along and sets them another way. Extract from 'Take Control of Maintaining your Mac': In Mac OS X, each file contains information specifying which users(or parts of the system) can read it, modify it, or execute it. This information is collectively known as permissions. If a file has incorrect permissions, it can cause applications to misbehave in various ways,such as crashing or failing to launch. Ordinarily, installers set the correct permissions for the files they install, and the permissions stay that way permanently. However, a poorly written installer can mess up permissions—even for files it did not install—and if you use Unix commands such as chown and chmod, you can accidentally set files’ permissions incorrectly. These sorts of problems occur infrequently, but they do occur. The Repair Permissions feature looks for certain software installed using Apple’s installer, which leaves behind files called receipts that list the locations and initial permissions of all the files in a given package. Repair Permissions compares the current permissions to those listed in the receipts and, if it finds any differences, changes the files back. The command ignores software installed in other ways (using a different installer or drag-and-drop installation, for instance) and knows nothing about legitimate permission changes you may have made deliberately. Cheers, Ronni Cheers Ronnie, Thanks for that ... I will make sure that I do that after this next update. Have I got this right, Go to utilities, select Macintosh HD, click Repair Dick Permissions regards Peter -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Update to 10.5.5
On 16/09/2008, at 10:24 PM, Peter Fowler wrote: Hello Peter, In general, run Repair Permissions after installing or upgrading software. To be accurate, it doesn’t actually repair permissions. Rather, it simply resets permissions. Permissions stay the way they are set until someone or something comes along and sets them another way. Extract from 'Take Control of Maintaining your Mac': In Mac OS X, each file contains information specifying which users(or parts of the system) can read it, modify it, or execute it. This information is collectively known as permissions. If a file has incorrect permissions, it can cause applications to misbehave in various ways,such as crashing or failing to launch. Ordinarily, installers set the correct permissions for the files they install, and the permissions stay that way permanently. However, a poorly written installer can mess up permissions—even for files it did not install—and if you use Unix commands such as chown and chmod, you can accidentally set files’ permissions incorrectly. These sorts of problems occur infrequently, but they do occur. The Repair Permissions feature looks for certain software installed using Apple’s installer, which leaves behind files called receipts that list the locations and initial permissions of all the files in a given package. Repair Permissions compares the current permissions to those listed in the receipts and, if it finds any differences, changes the files back. The command ignores software installed in other ways (using a different installer or drag-and-drop installation, for instance) and knows nothing about legitimate permission changes you may have made deliberately. Cheers, Ronni Cheers Ronnie, Thanks for that ... I will make sure that I do that after this next update. Have I got this right, Go to Applications - utilities - Disk Utility and start it , when it has found the hard drives select Macintosh HD,clickRepair Disk Permissions regards Peter -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Update to 10.5.5
On 16/09/2008, at 6:48 PM, Mervyn Giuliana Bond wrote: I have completed an update to 10.5.5. on an intel iMac. This was followed by running Disk Utility and repair permissions. The permissions report read as follows: Repairing permissions for Macintosh HD Reading permissions database. Reading the permissions database can take several minutes. Permissions differ on System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.usbmuxd.plist, should be -rw-r--r-- , they are -rwxr-xr-x . Warning: SUID file System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/OwnerGroupTool has been modified and will not be repaired. Warning: SUID file usr/bin/lppasswd has been modified and will not be repaired. Group differs on private/etc/cups, should be 0, group is 26. Permissions differ on private/var/spool/cups/cache/rss, should be drwxr-xr-x , they are drwxrwxr-x . Permissions repair complete Should I be concerned about the two statements commencing with the word Warning? Hello Merv, These errors can be safely ignored. See this kb article: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448 Nothing is wrong with your system. Apple has changed (again) the way Disk Utility behaves. It seems to go through phases: tells us things we don't need to know, and can't do anything about, gets fixed, then gets all chatty again. It's in an excessively chatty phase with Leopard. You could download the Combo update and run that over the top, it normally gets rid of these SUID warnings. http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosx1055comboupdate.html Cheers, Ronni Ronni I did the combo update as you suggested and then ran Disk Utility. This time the report read Repairing permissions for Macintosh HD Reading permissions database. Reading the permissions database can take several minutes. Group differs on private/etc/cups, should be 0, group is 26. Permissions repair complete Thank you for your advice. Truly appreciated. Merv -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Science teaches that we must see in order to believe, but we must also believe in order to see. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Update to 10.5.5
Ronda Brown wrote: On 16/09/2008, at 7:37 PM, Peter Fowler wrote: Hi all This may sound like a dumb question, but I am new to this game, is it normal to run repair permissions after a software update, and why? regards Peter Hello Peter, In general, run Repair Permissions after installing or upgrading software. To be accurate, it doesn't actually repair permissions. Rather, it simply resets permissions. Permissions stay the way they are set until someone or something comes along and sets them another way. [...deletia...] IMHO (and that of others) if repair permissions were required after the update, Apple's installer would do it anyway... http://www.tuaw.com/2008/02/25/new-ebook-explains-leopards-permissions/ Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Update to 10.5.5
Shay Telfer wrote: IMHO (and that of others) if repair permissions were required after the update, Apple's installer would do it anyway... http://www.tuaw.com/2008/02/25/new-ebook-explains-leopards-permissions/ Have fun, Shay I had the impression that I should repair permissions, back up, perform rites with chickens etc *before* I upgrade. Happy to be corrected, it's just that I've hardly ever bothered, or been required, before or after so I'm unsure of the right way to go. Also, I'd be interested to know if anyone has comments one way or the other on using Combo Updates. People often see these as a better way to go. As Rove would say; discuss... :-p Cheers Paul -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Virtualbox [was VMware]
On 16/09/2008, at 9:22 AM, Dudley Gager wrote: I have just installed XP Pro under Bootcamp and was considering VM Fusion. If I go with Virtualbox instead, and it looks very attractive, does that mean I need to ininstall Bootcamp and start from scratch with Virtualbox. I want to keep it simple. Anyone been there done that? Dudley Gager While both VMWAre and Parallels will use a Boot Camp partition for a Virtual Machine, I'm not sure that Virtualbox is at that stage yet. I've certainly seen no reference to it. After all, there has to some reason to pay for software! Nevertheless, the answer to your question is No, you won't have to uninstall Boot Camp to use Virtualbox, but you will need to create a new Virtual Machine and re-install Windows onto it. The only reason to uninstall Boot Camp would be to reclaim the space taken up by the partition. On the other hand, there are actually good reasons to hang onto the Boot Camp partition. For some Windows software (probably mostly games) a virtualisation solution is not necessarily the best option. Virtualisation also means that you are having to share your Mac resources such as RAM. Boot Camp allows you to devote all of your hardware resources to running Windows. The main advantage of Virtualisation software is the ability to swap instantly between Windows and Mac OS X and use your standard Mac folders as Shared Folders, something which is not possible with Boot Camp. I personally have no need for Boot Camp so I have never set it up. If you want to use your Boot Camp partition for a Virtual Machine, you'll have to go with VMWare or Parallels, otherwise Virtualbox works fine. -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VMware
On 16/09/2008, at 11:04 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Peter, Sounds interesting - how long have you been using virtualbox? As a user of Parallels also, have you noticed any areas where Parallels is better - do you still go back to Parallels for anything now or do you just use virtual box now? Cheers The main reason I run Parallels at all is so I can develop interfaces in Filemaker Pro that look OK on both Windows and Mac (not always an easy thing to do), and for this reason I have only ever had Parallels running on my MacBook Pro for those occasions when I visit Windows- based clients. I installed Virtualbox on my iMac primarily out of curiosity, but I have to say that feature-for-feature, Virutalbox is at least as good and sometimes a little better that Parallels. It's certainly noticeably faster, but that can also be but down to the fact that the iMac has more RAM and a faster hard drive. I installed Virtualbox when it reached version 2.0.0. Until that point I hadn't bothered with it since it didn't have important resources such as shared networking or USB support. Version 2.0.2 also supports sound, which I couldn't get version 2.0.0 to do. I haven't tested other functions such as printing (in fact there's no reference to printing in the Vitualbox user manual), but I suspect it would just be a matter of installing the Windows drivers for your printer. There also doesn't seems to be any Parallel Port emulation, but USB would probably work fine. Hope this helps. -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mail problems - lost local mailboxes
When I booted up this morning and clicked on Mail, I got a message about an update. Foolishly, I chose the update. The result was that the update clobbered my mail choice of iinet and substituted a mobileme connection which didn't allow me to access my previous mail. I don't know if this is connected with my update last week from Tiger to Leopard. After initial panic, I rang the iinet help line and got excellent help. I've reconnected to iinet and deleted mobileme. However, I haven't been able to display my local mailboxes. They are on the machine all right - I can find them and their messages via mail/ library/mailboxes but they don't display as before in my left hand menu. Even worse is that when I go through the mail/library/mailboxes route, the message names are numerics, and don't display the headers. There is probably a simple box to tick somewhere in Mail Preferences, but I can't find it. Can anybody suggest where to look. David Nicholas -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Locking an iTunes playlist
I'm wondering if there is a way to lock an iTunes playlist or toggle on a delete warning. I've accidentally deleted a couple entirely when I've been changing the contents. Arghhh! Talk about sudden death. Cheers, Paul. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
WAMUG Hacked
I just noticed the WAMUG archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/wamug@wamug.org.au/ appears to have been hacked. Paul. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dropbox feedback?
Hi all Anybody used/using dropbox http://www.getdropbox.com/ Any comments? TIA Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I Cal
Hi folks, My I Cal has packed it in? Tried a search for an update but most everything refers to 10.5, I asked for 10.4.11 but nothing comes up that helps? Any hints please, Best to all, Ken -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dropbox feedback?
Hi Neil, There is a review of the service here: http://forums.mactalk.com.au/20/51780-dropbox-detailed-review.html Haven't used it myself though.. Cheers James On 17/09/2008, at 12:02 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi all Anybody used/using dropbox http://www.getdropbox.com/ Any comments? TIA Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
