Re: Profile Maker Pro 4.1 and Mac OSX 10.2.1
Re: Profile Maker Pro 4.1 and Mac OSX 10.2.1
- Subject: Re: Profile Maker Pro 4.1 and Mac OSX 10.2.1
- From: Chris Murphy <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 10:43:43 -0600
On Friday, October 4, 2002, at 07:48 AM, Roberto Michelena wrote:
A couple of times in which my iBook has been terribly sluggish and
unresponsive, I opened up Process Viewer to see what was happening. A
process called "aksusbd" was eating up 80% of cpu time.
That would be it. The misbehaving USB dongle daemon from Aladdin.
Well, how do I get rid of the dongle driver? After all, it won't be
needed
to run a demo PM4.1...
There are two pieces. The actual program and the startup script. Only
the startup script needs to be removed.
Whoever wrote the installer (either Aladdin or Gretag Macbeth) did a
very very very VERY (is that clear yet?) BAD thing. As in heresy. They
installed a 3rd party tool into /System/Library/StartupItems. Very bad.
It's bad because even admin users can't remove these things (without
considerable effort anyway) through the GUI. They belong in
/Library/StartupItems where admin users DO have the necessary
permission to remove the offending item.
To remove the startup script, use the following command line command
EXACTLY (it's going to delete an entire directory, so if you type in
the wrong thing and hit return, it will be gone instantly - you don't
get an "are you sure?" or undo abilities at the command line. Note that
if you use HFS+ this is NOT case sensitive, so you can just type
lowercase.
sudo rm -R /System/Library/StartupItems/Aladdin <RETURN>
you will need to enter your admin password here.
If you really want to remove the daemon itself (it's really tiny so
it's almost not worth it), you can follow the above with:
sudo rm /usr/libexec/aksusbd
and it will be gone.
Chris Murphy
Color Remedies (tm)
Boulder, CO
303-415-9932
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