On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 11:10:32 +0100, Rick Lecoat wrote: >Another option for general maintenance (slightly OT I know) is to grab >yourself a copy of the excellent freeware app Cocktail which can repair >permissions, redo prebinding, and a host of other neat tricks without the >need to reboot from the OS X CD.
A note on repairing permissions while booted from the drive-to-be-repaired: I once mentioned on a Mac troubleshooting bulletin board (probably either MacFixIt.com or ArsTechnica's Mac board) that one no longer needed to boot from the Install CD to repair permissions, since Jaguar's Disk Utility could do work on its own drive. Within a few hours someone begged to differ, suggesting I try repairing permissions from my Jaguar drive, then immediately reboot from the CD and run "Repair Permissions" again. A week or so later, I tried that out, and found that using Disk Utility while booted from the CD found an extra page or three of permissions problems that a native-boot repair did not. Quite an eye-opener. I'm in no way a filesystem repair expert, but it does seem to me to make sense that it would be easier to repair files that are not currently in use, so in the end I'm not really surprised by this. I'll still run Disk Utility from my hard drive as a first step in troubleshooting, but when that doesn't seem to do the trick, I now boot from the CD and run it from there. Evan Evanson B&W G3 Mac OS X 10.2.6 PowerMail 4.1.2 -- Tony Kushner on Shakespeare's sonnets: I never really liked the sonnets. All love poems tell as much about the lover as about the beloved. The aggregate effect of them read in sequence is to portray their maker as a grossly selfish lover who, beyond noting his lover's complexion and, to a far murkier degree, his lover's gender, seems mostly to be in love with himself in love--seems, in fact, to be rather annoyed at his lover for failing to be a sufficiently appreciative audience.
