[HM] Reparining permissions multiple times

John Baltutis baltwo at san.rr.com
Sat Apr 2 14:20:22 PST 2005


On 04/02/05, Thom Holland <tholland at san.rr.com> wrote:
>
> B.ru c-e ÄK1u-tch-k0 wrote:
>>On 4/2/05 12:13 PM, "Thom Holland" <tholland at san.rr.com> wrote:
>>>I have run Repair Permissions multiple times in succession.  Each time
>>>it finds the same errors after it fixed them the time before.  Is this
>>>normal?
>>What is the error?
>
> This is what I continually get:
>
> Repairing permissions for ìThom's Hard Driveî
> Determining correct file permissions.
> We are using special permissions for the file or directory
> ./Library/ColorSync/Profiles/Displays. New permissions are 16893
> We are using special permissions for the file or directory
> ./Library/ColorSync/Profiles. New permissions are 16893
> We are using special permissions for the file or directory
> ./System/Library/Filesystems/cd9660.fs/cd9660.util. New permissions are
> 33261
> We are using a special uid for the file or directory
> ./private/var/at/jobs. New uid is 1
> We are using a special uid for the file or directory
> ./private/var/at/spool. New uid is 1
> The privileges have been verified or repaired on the selected volume
>
> Permissions repair complete

Those aren't errors. They are normal notifications that older permissions
(those shown in the BOM Archives residing in /Library/Receipts packages are
no longer valid and were changed by Apple in the latest Security updates.
You're fine.


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