Existing users, 
Downloaded via SU, install went smoothly. Ran repair permissions after install, & along with usual notes, the following which I have not seen before & have no idea what it means:
We are using a special uid for the file or directory ./private/var/at/jobs. New uid is 1
We are using a special uid for the file or directory ./private/var/at/spool. New uid is 1
Any suggestions?
Apple Security Update
for PPC OS X 10.4.11
Version: 2008-008
so far, so good!
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: jirene Tuesday, January 25 2005 @ 06:48 PM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Recommend Product: YES
Comments
so far, so good! - MacJuanC
at is the user version of "cron": a Unix utility that helps you schedule tasks to be carried out automatically by the system in your stead sometime in the future. Cron needs special privileges to run and you have to modify the crontab file to set things up, whereas "at" is configured with the command-line.Regarding the change of the /private/var/at/jobs/ directory ownership, what Apple apparently did is make it belong to the "daemon" service account, instead of root (the privileged superuser account). This is clearly a security issue so a sneaky regular user cannot use the "at" command to gain superuser privileges. Not a big deal if you're the only person to use your portable, but an issue on public or multiuser machines.
Wednesday, January 26 2005 @ 12:12 AM PST
so far, so good! - brandonedling
Isn't at disabled by default? According to the man pages:at, batch, atq, atrm are all disabled by default on Mac OS X. Each of
these commands depend on the execution of atrun(8) which has been dis-
abled due to power management concerns. Those who would like to use
these commands, must first re-enable /usr/libexec/atrun by removing the
leading '#' from the line.
Wednesday, January 26 2005 @ 05:14 AM PST
so far, so good! - mnb
I've seen similar log messages for other files/directories during a permissions check/repair. I'll bet a change to 'at' was made. It's a unix utility that allows you to specify when a command is run. Sort of like cron, but cron is for a repeating cycle.Reply to This
Tuesday, January 25 2005 @ 07:09 PM PST