Mostly this is well hidden by Apple, but it does seem to be a problem for some people. Personally it doesn't seem to affect me, but I have come across enough reports of it happening.
If you install a pure unix command line application say via the X11 environment, you often have to issue a "renice" command to raise the awareness of the system to this new application.
So permissions cleaning up is just sensible housekeeping.
regards Richard Earney
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On 18 Feb 2004, at 11:59, Rod Wynne-Powell wrote:
Simon,
On 18 Feb 2004, at 11:20, SimonMartin wrote:
I'd feel better if one of you 'insiders' would tell me that they are at least working on fixing the issues so many people are having...
As I explained in an earlier reply, there have been several comments over instability experience by some people, but seriously they are less prevalent than you imagine and are often 'local' - and by that I mean, circumstances that are specific to their set up. I mentioned the permissions issues. I am not exonerating Apple from the responsibility, but as I explained I noted the suggestion that these permissions needed to be correct at installation of either System or Application Software, and immediately after such an operation for some problems to not occur.
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