Should I have ‘allowed’ and not ‘denied’?

My MPB (10.6.8) was left on with a partially charged battery and shut itself down during the night. In the morning, I put it on charge and switched on. A window opened explaining that the clock was inaccurate and so I re-set it. However, there were other windows telling me that certain applications (that I had never heard of and whose names I do not now remember) would not function correctly if they were not allowed to accept in-coming data. Befuddled by sleep, I clicked “Deny” in each case. The MPB seems to be functioning normally but I’m wondering what these applications were, and whether the “Deny” should be changed to “Allow”. I can only remember that their names were in lower case letters with perhaps included a number.

M

I would first do a Repair Permissions from Disk Utility using the Snow Leopard install disk.
Without you remembering the names of these Apps, it is really hard to say, but they could of been some system utility that needed it to be accepting incoming data, and if you Repair Permissions from the SL iInstall Disk, should fix anything you may have mucked up.
I wouldnt worry too much, but do a Repair Permissions, log out then back in and just keep using your MBP.

And just 1 more thing, dont worry about all the errors in the log window, as you get these from time to time, and thats why you are Repairing the Permissions.

Cheers

PS: Disk Utility is in the Utilities Folder in the Applications Folder

Thanks very much for your helpful reply … that’s what I’ll do.
M

Those deny/allow boxes are prompts from the firewall. Check to see if the firewall is on (System Preferences > Security & Privacy).

Denying incoming connection may very well inhibit proper functioning. However, if it does, the fix is simple (in that preference pane, you can either turn off the firewall or add permission for the app that has issues).