[Ti] Disk Permissions

[b]

According to Dave Morrison:

>I'm slowly coming to terms with my new PowerBook, but this thing called
>"Disk Permissions" has me baffled. What are they? Why do they keep getting
>changed or broken? Why, after doing the "Repair Disk Permissions" in my Disk
>Utility and "locking" it to "prevent further changes" do I find the
>permissions changed again within a few days? Is this something I need to
>worry about?
>
>dave
>
>p.s. Flipper, thanks for the help on the inability to burn DVD's with my
>external burner and iDVD

First, you're welcome, anytime,

As for the disk permissions. There's no getting around them. I'll 
fire mine up right now, in order to retrieve a 'copy' of the file 
that is ALWAYS in need of changing. It has been a few days, so i know 
it will be 'messed-up'. be right back...

Ah yes, here it is:
>Group differs on ./private/var/run/utmp, should be 0, group is 1
>Owner and group corrected on ./private/var/run/utmp
>Permissions corrected on ./private/var/run/utmp

Every time. The same blurb. I have to assume that the file/directory 
called 'utmp' must be re-written a lot, otherwise simple logic would 
dictate that it be 'locked', or, if third-party installers or web 
spyware, or Ashcroft is responsible, then, at least, it should only 
be written to by the 'super user', but noooooo.

And what's with this "We" are using new permissions??? For one thing, 
their [his/her?] version of 'new' is befuddling, and what's with the 
'We'? Is it the King of England speaking? I know royalty likes to 
refer to themselves [King or Queen] as 'We", or is it Nixon, again? 
Oh no, wait, he referred to himself in the third-person ['the 
President', instead of "I", or "Me"].

At any rate, someone should tell 'them' that 'we' [meaning "I" or 
'us', or 'we' in the correct sense] have duly noted this change in 
permissions, innumerable times, and 'new' should be changed to 
'recently-altered', 'semi-old', or just left out, in the name of 
saving Quartz and CPU resources for the matters at hand.

Oh, and except for a reference to a 'locator' file, nothing, once 
again, was changed by Repair Disk Permissions, except the 'utmp' 
file. So, I'm [or 'we're'] good to go, for at least a reboot or two.

~flipper