[Ti] Advice Re: Security Update/!st Time App Launch Issue

[Chris Olson]

On Sep 26, 2004, at 12:47 PM, b wrote:

> Question is two-fold: Was coreservicesd the appropriate service to add 
> to the arguments,as far as the update in question was concerned, and 
> what might have been the cause of the mystery free space 
> disappearance?

Well, kind of.  Kill coreservicesd and icons start disappearing all 
kinds of weird things.

Executing /System/Library/CoreServices/coreservicesd as root fires it 
up after its dead.  It's probably better to:
ps -e | grep coreservicesd
to identify it first, then send it a -HUP signal so you don't hose the 
look of your desktop while you're trying to figure out how to restart 
it :-)

On your runaway, you can probably identify the errant process with top. 
  I'm guess a logging daemon went wild because it got alarmed that you 
perhaps tried to restart a system process that didn't restart.  
Anything that eats several gigs in several minutes has to pulling major 
cpu.  Haven't you ever heard the old Unix admin's last resort?  "kill 
-9 them all and let inetd sort it out"
--
Chris