Re: [NTLK] OT Safari does damage...

From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent.daudelin_at_verizon.net)
Date: Fri Jan 17 2003 - 00:04:50 EST

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on 16/01/03 23:41, Martin Joseph at martyNT_at_barknaturalpet.com wrote:

> On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 06:31 :-), good-dog_at_northshore.net
> wrote:
>> If a person has Safari downloaded and it's affecting their system, what
>> can be done? How would you know if there's a problem?
>
> Boot into OS9 and run diskwarrior,
>
> Or boot OSX into single user mode (holding down the command key and S)
> and then at the prompt type "fsck -y" without quotes... then look and
> see what fsck reports. when it's done you can run it again and see if
> it still reports problems or not. then type "reboot" if the file
> system was modified....
>
> Download the 1/10/03 version of safari and make sure the 1/03/03
> version is deleted...
>
>
> There is also a more serious problem Safari can cause, which is
> documented in an Apple tech note, but you'd know if that was going on,
> since everything would be wacky.

The easiest way is to run the latest Safari beta. There is apparently code
in it, according to the Apple's tech note, that will repair the hard link if
it's broken.

-Laurent.

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