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You might be able to find out this way - leave an emac alone for 24 hours. Then apply the changes by hand, and find / -mtime 1 To find all files changed in the past day. Of course, you'll probably end up changing a bunch of netinfo variables. I suspect using something like nigrep . ...

chroot: operation not permitted sounds like the tftpd might be dropping its root permissions first, and then trying to chroot into the /tftpboot directory. In fact, you have to be root to chroot, then drop your privileges. I wish I had a copy of Tiger, I would play around with it (I'm...

Oh, ego shooter like first-person-perspective. I was imagining something freudian, where you go about shooting egos...

Dropping stuff in the trash doesn't really clean it up - the data is left on the drives still. And, you can't wipe the drive while the computer's trying to run an OS off it - it would be like sawing off a branch you're sitting on. If you boot off the OS X CD, you can format the drive, with...

If Apple had by default set the sticky bit (there's a man page for "sticky") then it would be a good example. Does anyone who has Tiger know if they've done this? I'm still on 10.3.9.

In fact, if A puts a file in B's drop box, and C guesses the file name, C can delete it. Using the terminal, C can do rm ~B/Public/Drop\ Box/file.txt This is because the permissions lack the sticky bit, which says that users can only delete or overwrite files that they put there. To...

Totally fair comments - there are vulnerabilities in OS X, it's a young OS, so it's getting more than its share just at the moment. And Apple has not been great (not terrible, but not great) at getting the patches out timely. It's not the case that there's no malicious software for OS X...

Well, it claims to be trying .ssh/identity, .ssh/id_rsa, and .ssh/id_dsa. Where is your private key kept? Is it one of those?

or, more or less equivalently progname << __END__ ans1 ans2 ans3 __END__ the __END__ bit is arbitrary - as long as the word after the << matches the word after the last answer

http://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~nissler/tuntap/ You're not the only one looking - this fellow anticipates having one ported "soonish" apparently...

1. (d)The one that's managed by the most competent administrators. Which typically means (b)Apache (hem hem). Work is a firmly entrenched (a)IIS shop. Which is the most secure server for them to use, as it's the one they know best. If I were running my own servers I'd use (d)thttpd if I...

They only have single power supplies? What an odd design choice...

Hmm... Unmounting the shares successfully doesn't look too worrisome. The diskarbitrationd messages do look odd. For me they look like: May 7 10:34:23 localhost diskarbitrationd[87]: disk1s10 hfs 3408B198-267-357C-B74D-E2969FB643C4 Chyropter / May 7 10:34:23...

Yes, it would be helpful to know why your rep power is what it is - assuming that people actually want to improve their rep power, shouldn't they be able to know _why_ their reputation is what it is?

Hmm. I'm kind of grasping at straws here, but "/usr/libexec/fix_prebinding": exited with non-zero status 1 looks interesting. Also aped[390]: Attach denied: super-user process, for SecurityAgent[393] How desperately broken is the computer? If you can read crash logs, then...

There's a very in depth technical article on Tiger, on arstechnica.com (very well written and worth a read - http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars). There is a thorough examination of Quartz 2DExtreme at http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/14 Maybe try a real...

To make your iMac soar, you need two things - a gentle (10-20 km/hr) headwind, and an area with strong thermals. Sorry, couldn't resist. One thing about RAM - supposedly there is a measurable increase in the performance of certain operations if your RAM is installed in matching sets - i.e...

Isn't it cmd-opt-s-u? Or maybe I'm just making that up out of faulty memory... You probably know this already, but you do know that a 'verbose' boot is different from a single user boot, right?

Well, if it was attempting to change something in the Library directory, it must have been something more like "chmod -R 777 ./*" I'm afraid there's no way of getting back your permissions. If you have a backup copy, you could look at that for reference, otherwise I guess just pick a default...

There is an ogg codec plugin for Quicktime (and hence iTunes). If you use that, you ought to be able to convert oggs into whatever format your iTunes is set to import into, the same way you rip a CD.