Repair permissions from single user mode?

[FuturShoc]

I know I’ve seen how to do this somewhere, but now that we’re finally actually converting our support base to OS X, I can’t find it anywhere.

Can someone direct me to a howto or link or something on repairing permissions from WITHIN single user mode?

My desire here is to be able to do this *without* a CD or DVD or additional on-hand EQ.

[AaronAdams]

You might want to try AppleJack.

[FuturShoc]

Thanks for your help, folks.

[klktrk]

[QUOTE BY= macshome] I wrote an article on this for the site a while back. Click here for all the details.

Josh[/QUOTE]

Seems like there’s some weird behavior with this in PowerBooks under 10.4.x. after typing in /usr/libexec/register_mach_bootstrap_servers /etc/mach_init.d all hell breaks lose for some users–many reporting that they get an infinite loop of the3se errors printed to the screen:
limiting closed port RST response from 251 to 250 packets per second.

These are repeated every second or so. There is no way to regain control of the machine except with CTRL-C.

I’m thinking there’s something buggy going on with launchd and one of the services configured inside the /etc/mach_init.d directory but I can’t for the life of me pin it down.

These messages, by the way, appear whether the machine is on a network or not, and also regardless of whether the firewall is on or not. It might be related to external USB devices?

In any case, there are serious problems with this stuff in Tiger.

[scottyo]

limiting closed port RST response from 251 to 250 packets per second

I can generate this message on my xserve (os 10.4 server) by running a portscan to the server on a client machine.

just fyi

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