[CUBE] OS X Quirks

[atoa at krak.net]

It is my understanding that Disk Utility's Repair Permissions looks in 
/Library/Receipts to determine proper permissions. Any later installed 
packages should have created a .bom file there.

See http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106712
and
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25751

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Joost van de Griek wrote:

> On 2004-08-12 18:04, Rod Clifford wrote:
>
>> Repaired permissions using installation CD last week but problem has started
>> again a couple of days later.
>
> DO NOT REPAIR PERMISSIONS FROM THE INSTALLATION CD
>
> More than likely, your OS has been updated since you installed it. The newer
> parts may need their permissions set differently than they did at the time
> your installation CD was current. For all you know, you might be setting
> certain permissions to the wrong values by repairing then from your install
> CD.
>
> ,xtG
> .tsooJ
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