[P1] Permissions weirdness

[Richard McKay]

Brett Forrester wrote in response to Jay's permission problem:

> On 1/22/2003, Jay Boshara <jboshara at mchsi.com> wrote:
>> A week ago I repaired the permissions (using Disk Utility) on my clamshell
>> 366 iBook SE which runs OS 10.2.3 with 320 MB of RAM.  I tried repairing
>> permissions again the other day and it seemed to repair the very same ones
>> that it repaired the first time.  I had other problems too, so yesterday I
>> reinitialized my hard drive, clean installed Jaguar, updated it to 10.2.3,
>> installed all my software, repaired permissions, then ran an fsck (which
>> came out clean), and my computer was running smoothly again.  I just
>> repaired permissions again, and it seemed to repair the very same
>> permissions AGAIN!  What the hell is going on here?  Why don't permissions
>> repairs stick?

> Which Disk Utility are you using to repair permissions? It is
> important, apparently, to always use the most updated Disk Utility,
> likely the one _on your hard drive updated to OS X 10.2.3_, to repair
> permissions (this can be done on the boot drive) as these have
> changed from when the Jaguar Install CD's Disk Utility came out (OS X
> 10.2). For more related information that may help you, check out
> Randy Singer's _How To Deal With Common Macintosh OS X 10.2 Jaguar
> Problems_ web page <http://www.macattorney.com/tutorial.html>.

if that doesn't help...Did you have the following problems (taken from
another list...)

> Have a question about disk utility and repairing permissions. The
> following four files always get repaired when I run the above app.
> .System/Library/Filesystems/hfs.fs/hfs.util
> .private/var/run/tmp  ./usr/manshare/man/man3/DB.3
> ./usr/share/man/man3/db3  Im curious why these four always need
> repaired.

If so, then it is apparently a known problem with the utility and you can
find out more at Apple's knowledgebase.

HTH,

Richard
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