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Mainyehc
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Hey!
Ok, here it goes... I have my iMac 17'' 1,25GHz since December, and I've never checked my disk permissions. I know it's stupid, I should do it once every month, or every two weeks, or whatever. I'm doing it this very moment, and... guess what, they are ALL screwed up!!! Yes, every single one of them... It problably isn't something too serious, because my Mac only crashed twice, and in one of those crashes I had inserted some old weird PC backup disc, probably it was that thing that froze my system.
Anyway, the error in EVERY single permission in my Mac is this:
"should be -rw-rw-r-- , they are -rw-r--r-- "
And no, I'm not exaggerating, they all have the same problem. I know what "r", "w" and "x" mean, I've used RedHat w/ Gnome in my old PeeCee for a month a few years ago, and even if I didn't use the terminal I understood how the filesystem worked... It seems that someone that shouldn't be able to write to those files has that permission... Heck! What can I do to correct this?
And there's more... Is there any chance that my system could get screwed up if I actually fixed them with the disk utility? It works fine the way it is...
Any thoughts on this subject? (btw, what should I do? )
Oh, and btw, don't know if this is important... The original Software Backup disc had Jaguar in it, which I used for a few weeks, and then I upgraded to Panther with the disc that also came with the iMac. Can this problem have something to do with the upgrade?
Thanks!
Ok, here it goes... I have my iMac 17'' 1,25GHz since December, and I've never checked my disk permissions. I know it's stupid, I should do it once every month, or every two weeks, or whatever. I'm doing it this very moment, and... guess what, they are ALL screwed up!!! Yes, every single one of them... It problably isn't something too serious, because my Mac only crashed twice, and in one of those crashes I had inserted some old weird PC backup disc, probably it was that thing that froze my system.
Anyway, the error in EVERY single permission in my Mac is this:
"should be -rw-rw-r-- , they are -rw-r--r-- "
And no, I'm not exaggerating, they all have the same problem. I know what "r", "w" and "x" mean, I've used RedHat w/ Gnome in my old PeeCee for a month a few years ago, and even if I didn't use the terminal I understood how the filesystem worked... It seems that someone that shouldn't be able to write to those files has that permission... Heck! What can I do to correct this?
And there's more... Is there any chance that my system could get screwed up if I actually fixed them with the disk utility? It works fine the way it is...
Any thoughts on this subject? (btw, what should I do? )
Oh, and btw, don't know if this is important... The original Software Backup disc had Jaguar in it, which I used for a few weeks, and then I upgraded to Panther with the disc that also came with the iMac. Can this problem have something to do with the upgrade?
Thanks!