el capitan

[Mark Brethen]

I'm migrating from Yosemite to a clean install of El Capitan. I'm seeing several of these "deny" messages for various reasons besides Java. This is affecting both file and directory creation. Should I post the list here?

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> On Jan 27, 2016, at 11:49 AM, Daniel J. Luke <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:
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> Not in this case.
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> Macports makes use of the sandbox feature of Mac OS X to make it a little less likely that a poorly written Portfile (or upstream software build system) can cause unintended changes to your system.
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> The original poster is setting the error because 'javac' is trying to update the java usage tracker (https://docs.oracle.com/javacomponents/usage-tracker/overview/). There seems to be a java bug that causes the usage tracker folder to be created even if the usage tracker isn't enabled (https://community.oracle.com/thread/3783686?start=0&tstart=0)
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> This particular message is safe to ignore. 
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>> On Jan 27, 2016, at 12:42 PM, William H. Magill <magill at mac.com> wrote:
>> This is obviously "one of those important things" that Apple won't tell us about - or Fix - or tell "us" how to fix it.
>> If you scan the forums, it has been around for a while.
>> It is clearly related to Apple's security, nominally to the new "rootless" (or whatever its name is) environment, and "sandboxing."
>> 
>>> On Jan 27, 2016, at 08:38 AM, Mark Brethen <mark.brethen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On el capitan I’ve noticed when installing ports messages in the console like the following:
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>>> 1/27/16 7:31:48.671 AM sandboxd[116]: ([33785]) javac(33785) deny file-write-create /opt/local/var/macports/home/.oracle_jre_usage
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>>> Is this anything to be concerned about?
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