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Published On: Dec 11, 2003 02:34 PM
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Published On: Dec 11, 2003 02:34 PM
OS X - Disk Utility Permissions
What happens when you can't repair disk permissions
because Disk Utility no longer has the proper permissions? Run Repair Disk
Utility's Permissions 1.0.
While troubleshooting some odd files on my primary
web server I found that they appeared to be temp files for the user www.
Permissions were set to 600 on the files. The files were all 6 characters in
length and all appeared in the root
directory.
I tried running Disk Utility and found thousands of errors, but was unable to fix them due to "Operation not permitted" errors.
I did a lot of searching with Google and eventually found that this particular error is caused when Disk Utility no longer has the proper permissions and can't run as super-root (uid=0). I also found an application that fixes the problems at the following site:
http://homepage.mac.com/mdouma46/fdup/fdup.html
I copied the utility to my server hard drive and ran it. Enter the administrator password twice and it's done. I was then able to run disk copy and correct permissions. As for the odd files, haven't seen them since.
I tried running Disk Utility and found thousands of errors, but was unable to fix them due to "Operation not permitted" errors.
I did a lot of searching with Google and eventually found that this particular error is caused when Disk Utility no longer has the proper permissions and can't run as super-root (uid=0). I also found an application that fixes the problems at the following site:
http://homepage.mac.com/mdouma46/fdup/fdup.html
I copied the utility to my server hard drive and ran it. Enter the administrator password twice and it's done. I was then able to run disk copy and correct permissions. As for the odd files, haven't seen them since.
Posted: Wed - October 15, 2003 at 10:21 AM