Tom, thanks!
Listening: I thought that someone on the outside was listening!
Hard Drive: I use Time Machine and alternate between two external
drives, so I should be OK there. The first iMac hardware upgrade after
Snow Leopard I will probably buy a new iMac, thus using a new hard
drive.
On May 1, 2009, at 11:30 AM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
From appfirewall.log
May 1 06:32:43 Macintosh Firewall[41]: LaunchCFMApp is listening
from
0.0.0.0:3829 uid = 501 proto=6
May 1 06:35:50 Macintosh Firewall[41]: cupsd is listening from
fe80::1:631 uid = 0 proto=6
The firewall log is telling you that you have 2 apps that are
listening
for customers on designated ports. cupsd is the daemon for the cups
printing system. That's normal. Port 3829 I don't know about.
LaunchCFMApp is support for running old applications. This may be the
notification mechanism. I don't know.
5/1/09 9:28:07 AM [0x0-0x16016].com.alsoft.diskwarriorstarter
DiskWarriorDaemon: [Fri May 1 09:28:06 EDT 2009] : The spare blocks
for ATA device 'Hitachi HDS724040KLSA80', serial number
'KRFS26RAH8VRVD', appear to be exhausted. (Total Available: 5) (Use
Attempts: 55)
Only this one is a worry and probably not much of one. The rest are
periodic tests you have set up to check your drives and they are
reporting no problems. This last one says you are out of spare
blocks so
from now on when a bad block is detected on your drive it will be
blocked
off with no replacement. I don't know enough about disk drive
internals
to be completely sure, but having a few blocks blocked should not be a
big deal. If suddenly you were losing many blocks that would be a
different matter.
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