On Friday, October 19, 2001, at 09:52 PM, John W Baxter wrote:
> About which sendmail complained the first time it tried to mail the
> output
> of the daily cron job. So I fixed it, without visible ill effect so far
> (since March 25). I do have to remember to fix it again every time I
> run
> one of Apple's installers, which carefully make / group writeable again.
The only reason you'd need it is if you are installing Mac OS 9
software in Classic which doesn't give you the option to install at a
specific location. They typically will turd up your root directory with
the installation, and this is why an admin user might need write access
to /.
-Fred
