Re: OS X permissions Problem

[Thomas Martin]

I am puzzled why we need to repair permissions at all?  We have Unix at 
work (HPUX and then Solaris) and I have never heard of it needing to 
get "fixed", unless there is some background scripts running nightly to 
do it.  It was stable as a rock.  My machine was up with 0 issues for 
over 8 months.  (type "uptime" at command line).  IT did like to reboot 
the machines weekly, like late Sunday night, unless someone was logged 
in, then it aborted it.

How does it know what the correct permissions are?  Does it keep some 
list somewhere?  When I run it, it always seems to correct the 
permissions on newly installed apps.

I am new to OSX, as of Christmas day 2004 I finally installed 10.3 (you 
know, the CD's I bought from Apple some months before...) on my 'new' 
Sawtooth.  So for me I am trying to learn a lot.  So if anyone has some 
recommended reading or a primer, please let me know!

Tom
On Jan 6, 2005, at 4:56 PM, James Morgan wrote:
	In my opinion permissions are a pain in the whatchacallit in OS 10.3. 
 I have three G4's running OS 10.3.7. One refuses to send email  
several times a week unless the permissions are repaired. The other 
two occasionally won't let me move files from one folder to another 
over the network until permissions are repaired. Apple has wasted a 
lot of my time with this permissions thing.

	I don't religiously repair permissions, I repair permissions so I can 
get my work done. What I don't understand is why permissions are 
continually changing and continually needing repair? I don't have any 
other problems with any of the three G4's. Just permissions.

James K Morgan
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