On 3/26/06 1:25 PM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Mr. Tea was joking. Did you see the " ;-) " in his message? (He might have > found the "betwixt and between" of John Quinn a bit excessive, or else was > just reminding us that repairing permissions in X is like the old "rebuild > the desktop" maintenance routine in Classic: a sort of mindless mantra that > often helps and can't hurt, so just do it. Or something like that.)
Actually, in some cases, it can hurt. Since I run my own mail server using Postfix as provided with OS X and using Pine (downloaded) as a mail reader for when I'm logged into the shell (Terminal in OS X-speak) remotely via SSH, I have found that Pine does not like OS X's default permissions for /private/var/mail. As I understand it, Pine needs to be able to create a lock file in /private/var/mail to prevent another program from modifying a mail spool while Pine is making changes to it. So I have to remember to "correct" the permissions on /private/var/mail after each time I repair permissions. -- Larry Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stonejongleux.com/ -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
