Oddly enough I had this problem with one of the guys I work with just
last week. I'll bet you're having problems printing too.
In my case something had happened to the permission on the /private/
tmp directory, cause Software Update and Printing and a number of
other things to be unable to write to the directory, despite
apparently having permission. From the terminal I used 'chmod -R 777 /
private/tmp' to reset all the permissions on that directory and the
problem was fixed. Note that I'm pretty sure that isn't the usual
permissions for that directory, it solved the problem, but I did have
some concerns that it might cause others.
Gordon
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On 24/10/2005, at 6:32 PM, J Philippe Chaperon wrote:
Dear WAMUG'ers,
I'm running OS X 10.3.9 on a 1.8Ghz Dual G5 with 1.5Gb RAM and am
having
problems with Software Update.
For some time now Software Update would allow me to 'Download' the
latest
updates, but after having finished the download a message would
come up
advising that I do not have enough permission.
So, ran repair permission, which I do every week anyway, and still
no joy.
Ended up by simply downloading the update file directly from
Apple's servers
and running the installer. It still irks me no end that I do not
seem able
to fix that permission problem which Software Update is telling me.
Any
clues please?
Also, the Software Update is telling me that there is an updater to
iTunes,
being v 6.0.1 of 12.8MB size. However can't find this updater
anywhere on
Apple's site. It's probably simple, but what am I missing?
Many thanks for any suggestions,
Regards,
Philippe
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