Re: Jaguar applets don't run on 10.1.5
Re: Jaguar applets don't run on 10.1.5
- Subject: Re: Jaguar applets don't run on 10.1.5
- From: "Duane L. Mitchell" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 12:56:41 -0400
Bill said:
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Duane Mitchell reminded me that he had a 10.1.5 client who could not run a
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droplet that Duane had written and saved under Jaguar. His client apparently
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had the same experience mine had: the Jaguar applet/droplet tries to launch
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under 10.1.5 (you see it briefly in the Dock), but then it goes away without
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any error message or other indication that it was ever there.
Actually, this has been happening since OS X 10.1.4.
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Mark Alldritt solved this one quickly. Mailing a script applet/droplet
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causes the applet's eXecute privileges to be cleared.
It's not just emailing. Mostly I'm using removable media, floppy, to
transfer the droplet to the host machine. Sometimes it's transferred over
the network from an OS X Server 10.1.5.
John Baxter said:
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When I go into Terminal as an admin user and execute
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umask
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the result is
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0022
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This means that...anything I create cannot have the group or world execute
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bits on, although it could have the owner execute bit on. This is good...I
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have to take action to make something executable by other users.
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But it doesn't directly answer why the owner execute bit is off in the
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sequence of actions discussed here. It may, however, be a Clue.
This is what I'm thinking...it's not a bug, it's a feature...a security
feature of the OS.
Something I'm considering is that when the OS gets a request to allow the
applet to run it checks the privileges of the applet against the current
logged in user and/or the users of the machine. It doesn't like something
and turns off the execute bit. I assume that opening and resaving the applet
changes the ownership/privileges of the applet.
This is good if you receive an executable virus of some sort.
-Duane
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Duane L. Mitchell
Next Generation Solutions
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