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Re: Network setup
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Re: Network setup


  • Subject: Re: Network setup
  • From: "Peter Lovell" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 07:43:18 -0400

>Hi,
> Any ideas, as I'm a little stuck here, as I find it weird, as I'm guess
>the installer does something similar when it's executing its post preflight
>script files.
>
>Thanks
>Mark.
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Hi,
> I was wondering if anybody has any ideas/pointers why I cannot exec my
>shell script to execute, which I have written to copy over some .kext's to
>/System/Library/Extensions and then do a kextload, which all works great is
>I put my self in "su" mode in the terminal app.
>
> Where the problem lies is that I'm trying to get this script kicked off
>from within our tutorial/installer application, so I use Authorization API
>like I have for doing network configuration.
>
> But here, when I pass in a stdout parameter. I'm getting "Permission
>errors", from my cp commands, and kextload is saying I need to be root, but
>the authorization dialog came up, and did it thing, so slightly confused
>:-(.
>
>Any idea's,
>Thanks
>Mark.

Is is the copy or the kextload which is failing, or both?

If it's kextload, check that the ownership of everything in the kext is
root:wheel and that permissions are correct (0755 for directories, 0644
for files, IIRC)

Regards.....Peter
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