On Mar 16, 2005, at 9:05 PM, Steve Jensen wrote:
I Folks,
I have an ailing Pismo. I upgraded to X.3.8 a few days ago and within two
days Classic would not start. I repaired permissions several times with
different apps. The Apple knowledgebase has been searched thoroughly and all
the fixes I could find were tried just short of a clean install, which I am
trying to avoid. I just get the warning "You are running Classic without
superuser (root) privileges...". I can boot if I login under root or with an
OS9 boot disk. OSX is a little quirky, all the invisible files and folders
are visible! Any ideas?????
This is one of the issues that can arise when you run in the gui as root. It's a bad idea.
OS X is NOT like other unixes in this respect.
Archive and re-install *may* work, but you may be forced to do a clean install.
When you run as root in the GUI (which is it NOT designed to do!) many files that are not supposed to be owned explicitly by root do become owned by that user, leading to the errors you see.
Enabling root is generally a bad idea unless you know what you're doing and have express reasons for doing so.
You can run GUI programs as root, using Pseudo (google for it) , and anything can be done as root in terminal by doing sudo -s to get a root shell if you are a administrative user.
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