Alarming entries in System Log on a MacOS 10.8.5 system

Kok-Yong Tan ktan at realityartisans.com
Sun Oct 20 18:08:58 PDT 2013


On 10/20/13 19:57, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
> On Oct 20, 2013, at 16:08, Kok-Yong Tan wrote:
>
>> Hmmm...interesting.  Makes sense since /opt is used by macports
>> mainly. Okay, I allowed the macports user write *AND* delete
>> access to that folder.
>
> Note that the MacPorts prefix is /opt/local, not /opt. There could
> be other things in /opt besides /opt/local that have nothing to do
> with MacPorts and which MacPorts should not have permission to
> change.
>

So noted and permissions amended to just allow the macports user
list, add_file and delete access to:

/opt/local/var/macports/home/Library/Preferences/

Thanks.

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