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John Jacob

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Original poster
Feb 11, 2003
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Columbia, MD
Having OCD tendencies, I always repair my permissions about once a week or so. On my new unibody Macbook, I always run into these warnings (highlighted in blue) when I repair permissions. The error started when I downloaded and installed the latest XCode from Apple's website.
Code:
[B]Repairing permissions for “Pleiades”
	Reading permissions database.
	Reading the permissions database can take several minutes.
[/B]
Group differs on "private/etc/cups", should be 0, group is 26.
[COLOR="Navy"]Permissions differ on "Developer/Examples/JavaWebObjects/DataBaseSetUp/dbdump.sh", should be -rw-rw-r-- , they are -rwxrwxr-x .
Permissions differ on "Developer/Examples/JavaWebObjects/DatabaseSetup/dbdump.sh", should be -rwxrwxr-x , they are -rw-rw-r-- .[/COLOR]
ACL found but not expected on "Library".
[B]
Permissions repair complete[/B]

It seems that Disk Utility is itself changing the permissions twice for this file dbdump.sh. Probably because there are two duplicate and conflicting entries for this file in the permissions database.

I know this is a totally harmless and insignificant issue, but does anyone know where the permissions database is located so that I can edit it and try to remove the duplicate entry? I tried searching in Google, but no go.
 
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