I'll check.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andres Cabrera" 
To: 
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 1:22 PM
Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Csound 5.08Beta - OS X Warning


I've also noticed that the Mac Csound installer changes the
permissions for the /Applications directory, but I've never had a
problem with this.

Cheers,
Andrés


On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 7:54 AM, victor  wrote:
> The permissions are set correctly and this never happened
>  in any system that I know of, so I reckon something went
>  astray when you run the installer. The installer does not
>  put anything on /Applications (/System/Library/Applications,
>  /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/bin and /Library/Frameworks, mainly)
>
>  Note that the system has been built and tested on OSX 10.4
>  and installing it in other versions is not supported (although
>  it might work).
>
>  Victor
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>  From: "juno" 
>  To: 
>  Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 10:49 AM
>  Subject: [Csnd] Re: Csound 5.08Beta - OS X Warning
>
>
>  > just so some of you should know that the installation of Csound 
> 5.08Beta
>  > made my Leopard OS X (MBP Intel) machine unbootable, and "almost" every
>  > data
>  > in root directory, if I didn't have a backup. I had to reinstall OS X.
>  >
>  > This has to do with "permission" corruption that happens during the 
> Csound
>  > installation. (mostly to / and /Applications)
>  >
>  > I know most of you didn't have this problem, but this is a warning from 
> my
>  > personal experience, for anyone who's installing Csound on OS X.
>  >
>  > juno
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I have noticed that Csound gets installed with user ID 501 or 502 as the
owner for the files (I can't remember exactly which one it is), which on my
machine means they are owned by my wife instead of me :)  So the files are
being installed with Victor's user ID I assume, and not the user ID of the
person installing them.

Files installed to "unix" directories (usr/local/*) should probably be owned
by root with group "wheel" though instead of the installing user, shouldn't
they?  An easy fix might be to build Csound with sudo?  The files in
/Applications should then follow the system conventions (whatever those
are).

Anthony Kozar
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http://anthonykozar.net/

Andres Cabrera wrote on 3/9/08 9:36 AM:

> Hi Victor,
> I'm reporting not for the 5.08beta installer, but for previous ones.
> I've seen this specifically for 5.07.
> The permissions were changed for /Applications. I'm not sure if I
> fixed it just changing the folder's owner, or if a Fix permissions in
> the Disk Utility fixed it. I don't have a Mac, so I'm working from
> memory...