On Oct 22, 2012, at 12:20 PM, David Bowie wrote: > Since this is an institutional machine, it occurs to me that it could be an > ACL issue, where all the permissions look okay, but since ACLs trump > permissions, it still messes with you. That's what happened to me with my > institutionally-issued Mac a bit ago, after my university's tech "support" > upgraded my machine. Fortunately, if I recall correctly you said you have > admin access, so you should be able to fix it yourself if that's the problem. >
But as we said earlier, this doesn't seem a permission issue at the FS level since the error comes from some random place that is not the application itself ... If just FS permissions were the issue, you'd get a bash exec error instead. Cheers, S > David Bowie > > From: Paul Hewson <[email protected]> > >> Right, thanks. Finally sank in. >> The dialog box looks to me like the Finder icon (I don't know what that >> means yet, but it doesn't look like the gatekeeper thing which is in newer >> versions of os x ). There is sophos on the system and it beyond me to do >> anything I think. Anyway, you've given me something to discus with our >> technical support (like turning sophos off for 2 minutes while I check if >> that's the problem). I will email back when it's fixed. > >> Thanks >> Paul > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
