[Ti] PubSubAgent

[Dr. Trevor J. Hutley]

On 24 Dec 2007, at 16:03, Kim Gammelgård wrote:

> The PubSubAgent is an application that checks RSS and Atom feeds  
> regularly. (open the Terminal and type "man pubsub" without the  
> quotes). I will almost bet that it is Safari or Mail that is trying  
> to update one of your feeds, but it could be any application that is  
> using the pubsub-utility.
>
> The reason why it is giving the error message is probably due to a  
> feed that think that it needs authentication using an X509Anchor in  
> the Keychain. I would probably open the Keychain application and run  
> a check and repair on your keychains twice (there has been reports  
> that the second time is necessary for some actions to happen).

OK, done that.

> If that doesn't bring anything, I would have a look at the  
> X509Anchors in the keychain to see if they all have valid dates, and  
> after a backup of the keychain, deleting the ones that are expired.

I have 110 of these.  I sorted them by date.  None are expired.  The  
earliest that one expires is August 2008.

> If this doesn't bring you anywhere, I would go through your feeds  
> and try to isolate the culprit, backing up your bookmarks first.

I deleted all the RSS feeds in Safari, as this is not something that I  
use.

>> What messages are you getting
> One message says "PubSubAgent wants to use the TJH keychain ....  
> enter password" and the other says " PubSubAgent wants to use the  
> confidential information stored in idisk.mac.com in your keychain,  
> do you want to allow access to this item"?  If if I check Always  
> Allow, it will ask me next time..... (bug within a bug?)
> These messages appear a few times per hour, even during movies or  
> anything........

I hope to report positive news in a day or so.......

regards,  Trevor