Well, well! Somebody must find your software a threat. I hope you do not let it get you down. You (the author of Littlesnitch) have been a grand help to those of us who know little more than our name in UNIX.
Thanks again for the GREAT software!
Patrick James
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On Mar 3, 2004, at 7:19 AM, arthur weissman wrote:
Ah, the joys of the computer. Try this.I do not know the true purpose of my existence on this planet; but I am absolutely sure it is not merely to annoy my neighbors..
1. Although you uninstalled littlesnitch, often there are small bits of files, preferences, permissions, etc., still present.
A. go to the finder
B. command-f will bring up "find". Search for "littlesnitch". Command is the key with the apple or little flower on it.
C. delete.
D. restart.
2. repair permissions
A. "disk utility" lives in ~/applications/utilities/disk utility.
B. use it to repair permissions on all of your os-X containing volumes
C. restart and see if this helps.
3. Use a file repairing program in case there are damaged bits of software present. Try diskwarrior or techtoolpro.
A. Boot from a disc or drive other than the one(s) with potentially damaged files, for example, from the disc warrior or techtoolpro cd itself.
B. For the future, look at Bootcd, http://www.charlessoft.com/. It makes a bootable cd containing your favorite repair programs. Unfortunately it is not panther compatible.
4. If this doesn't work, you will need to start over: erase, and reinstall. A. Make copies of data you would like to save (for example, mp3's, photos, documents, the kids' homework, etc.)
B. erase the disk
C. reinstall. Use uncorrupted sources, like commercial cd's, as much as possible.
D. Reinstall the potentially corrupt items one at a time and run the programs in between.
5. At least this should restore you to a working system.
A. If not, then you may have some other conflict, like some other software you have installed that does not like littlesnitch. 4D (above) should help identify it.
B. I have not found littlesnitch to be all that useful.
i. You don't need it. OS X already has a firewall.
ii. It's bad, as you have discovered. Buggy and cumbersome.
6. good luck.
James
