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!
Yes there is a list, I believe the package receipts contain this information. A lot of installers don't seem to set the permissions correctly. When you "install" a program by dragging it to the applications folder it has whatever permissions it got when put on your computer. This could be the permissions of the download folder. Among other things this means other users cannot use the application.
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