On 21 aug 2010, at 04:18, Rudolf O.Durrer <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm still running an older iMac G4 (the lamp) with 10.5.8. I use it just for > Skype and radioShark, and for nothing else. Access through screen sharing > from a Intel Mini, also 10.5.8 > > Today, while screensharing still worked, some utilities (ie.Batchmod) refused > to start. So I had DiskUtility running acces rights repair. > Examining the log afterwards, it revealed that the values for owner and group > were (instead 0) over 510'000 (yes: over fivehundredandtenthousend) for all > items in usr/share/man and all shells (bin/csh, bin/tcsh, bin/zsh...), and > all access rights were r--r--r--. Moreover, NOT ONE value was like the > other... > > I do not use shells, I did not add third party software since a good time, in > fact I did nothing special than before, with one exception: I activated the > Apache server. > Can that be the cause of such an abnormality? > Did somebody else observe a similar behaviour? > That half miljon user is an old kernel wolf few admins have met and stayed alive to tell..., Kidding, it sounds like a back up is a wise thing for a starter. The Apache shouldn't cause this. The owner 70 is far from the half miljon. I havn't seen your kind of file permission failure but you could examine your log files with /Console.app and note the time when the web server starts and use it when read other logs of interest. You could also read the logs on the machine from were you controlled the G4 and see if it gives you any clues. // John Stalberg_______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
