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qwest4zen - May 8, 2006 - 12:40 pm

How often should repair permissions be run, and is there a way to Automate it?

Thanks.

bobw - May 8, 2006 - 1:15 pm

Hi qwest4zen

If you have problems at any time with your machine, a first step would be to repair permissions. Repairing Permissions only looks at Apple.pkg files, or any .pkg files that are in the Receipts folder, so it doesn't repair all permissions.

No need to do it on a regular basis. I do it after installing any major update.

You can use Cocktail to schedule all maintenance tasks;

http://www.maintain.se/cocktail/index.html

bobw
http://www.macosx.com

qwest4zen - May 8, 2006 - 2:26 pm

How do you automate repair permissions?

bobw - May 8, 2006 - 2:44 pm

You have to use a program like Cocktail to automate it. No way to have it done another way. With Cocktail, you can schedule automatically.

bobw
http://www.macosx.com

qwest4zen - May 8, 2006 - 6:07 pm

Just trying to confirm, I thought I had read somewhere that it can be automated in the terminal...?

bobw - May 9, 2006 - 11:44 am

If you want to do in Terminal with the Cron scripts, read this;

http://www.insanityflows.net/archive...che_and_Update

bobw
http://www.macosx.com

bobw - May 9, 2006 - 2:08 pm

Ok, you can do it in Terminal with a Script.


Open the AppleScript Editor in the AppleScript folder in your Application folder.

Paste this in -

do shell script "sudo diskutil repairPermissions /" password "*******" with administrator privileges


Change the ***** to your password.

Save as an Application with a name like RepairPermissions, to wherever you want to keep it.

Open the System Preferences>Accounts. Click on the Stratup Items tab and drag the script to that pane. It will now run automatically anytime you start the machine.

bobw
http://www.macosx.com