Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions

From	nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions
Date	2017-02-21 17:04 -0500
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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References	<190220171138059200%otto@bogus.address.com> <1n1qlpi.1wqc4am1g1w4nfN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz> <o8fjds$3v9$1@dont-email.me> <200220171602362624%nospam@nospam.invalid> <o8ibjq$oct$1@dont-email.me>

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In article <o8ibjq$oct$1@dont-email.me>, Fred Moore <fmoore@gfcn.huh>
wrote:

> >>>
> >>> The system still does an automatic verify/repair permissions as part of
> >>> software updates, and there is a lower level tool available via the
> >>> command line (or accessible through third party utilities) if you really
> >>> want to repair permissions.
> >>
> >> The question I have, David, is that time and again I have seen
> >> _Apple's_own_ installers leave a permissions mess which must be cleaned
> >> up by running Repair Permissions in Disk Utilities.
> >
> > no they don't
> 
> Well, as I mentioned to JR, I have had Apple's installers cause perm 
> problems in 10.9 (repair perms before an update; run only an Apple 
> update; rerun perm repair; find/repair numerous bad perms). I only 
> recently acquired a laptop running 10.12, so I don't have any experience 
> with perms post 10.9. This has been my direct, personal experience.

see my other post. what you're seeing doesn't mean what you think it
does.

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Sierra Upgrade Questions Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> - 2017-02-19 11:38 -0800
  Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2017-02-20 09:03 +1300
    Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions "Andre G. Isaak" <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2017-02-19 21:27 -0700
      Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-20 05:04 +0000
        Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2017-02-19 21:15 -0800
    Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions Fred Moore <fmoore@gfcn.huh> - 2017-02-20 15:28 -0500
      Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-20 20:41 +0000
        Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions Fred Moore <fmoore@gfcn.huh> - 2017-02-21 16:33 -0500
          Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-21 17:04 -0500
          Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-22 00:04 +0000
            Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions Fred Moore <fmoore@gfcn.huh> - 2017-02-23 14:45 -0500
              Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-23 15:01 -0500
      Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-20 16:02 -0500
        Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions Fred Moore <fmoore@gfcn.huh> - 2017-02-21 16:33 -0500
          Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-21 17:04 -0500
          Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-22 00:05 +0000
  Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-19 15:10 -0500
    Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> - 2017-02-19 13:17 -0800

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