[X-Newbies] Re: OS 10.3.7 on CD?

[Charles Martin]

> From: Vincent Cayenne <vcayenne at mac.com>
> It's good but is not *necessary*.

We have differing definitions of necessary, apparently. I mean 
"necessary if you want to avoid trouble." You apparently mean 
"necessary in that your machine will explode if you don't," and call 
that wrong. By that definition, I agree. I don't mean the latter, I 
mean the former.

> But I'm interested - have you seen actual repaired
> permissions on a 10.3.7 update when you'd repaired permissions
> immediately before the update? If so, which files/directories were
> indicated?

Yes, but it's usually very minor stuff if you repaired permissions 
*before* the install as well. A recent example resulted in only one 
permission altered: the iso9660 kernel extension (which says "we are 
using special permissions here").

A few days ago, a consultant I was with didn't bother with the initial 
repair permissions before upgrading the half-dozen machines he was 
working on to 10.3.7 (from 10.3.2 I believe), but DID do it afterward 
at my insistence. The result was PAGES AND PAGES of fixed permissions 
from all over the drive.


_Chas_

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