Thank You QuiteTall for your post!

It was the top Google hit when I searched on the error I found in my Console system log, and did the trick. Thanks!

I Found This Useful: Error message in OSX Console - Can't create kext cache under / - owner not root

Looks like an interesting blog, from someone using OSX (like me), interested in security (like me), and who has a Synology product (like me) - and this is just from reading his last few posts. I think I'll Follow! :)

chris

[edit 5/27/2011 11:40 AM]
in case the blog ever disappears, the command I needed to run on the root of my OSX drive, to fix the fact that I was the owner, was:
sudo chown root:admin /

Make sure your Mac always has these folders

I realized Friday, when I was finishing my Leopard image for the Ad Layout designers, that there weren't any messages in the console! No system logs or anything.. I also noticed weird files showing up at the root of the system volume, some with no names (must have been spaces) and some named like '%B0%B1' and other weird naming structures. They looked like temp files of some sort, but they weren't plain text.

I use the awesome Carbon Copy Cloner to create my Mac images after they are configured - I save them as disk images for later imaging to an empty partition on the destination Mac. I had been working on this particular configuration off and on for a couple of months - taking an image after substantial work so as not to lose it. (Good thing, too, since I needed to roll out my build Mac quickly one day two weeks ago and grab another one to work on. :)

I must have something mis-configured in my CCC settings.. so I installed a fresh copy of Leopard and immediately imaged it, then blasted that image back. Same symptoms - I've definitely got something wrong.

I'm slightly obsessive about having a clean system, although I try not to break anything with my cleaning! In this case, I took the suggestion from this Knowledge Base article about what additional folders I could exclude from my new image, and added a custom entry after communicating with CCC's developer at this forum post. The first three lines are the suggestion, and the fourth is my addition:

- Library/Caches
- /Library/Logs
- /private/var/log
- /private/var/folders

It turns out that the folders 'log' and 'folders' weren't being copied at all, which makes sense. However these are located in a locked down area of the system, where you need to issue commands with sudo - OSX couldn't create the folders! Thus no system logs, and no folder for certain temp files and caches, including a system font cache.

So I adjusted my entries to copy over the folders but not the contents, and my Mac image is much happier (and I am too!). The new entries look like this:

- Library/Caches
- /Library/Logs
- /private/var/log/*
- /private/var/folders/*

chris

I've finally started using RSS

Yes, I know, most computer geeks have been using it for ages. I've been wanting to as well, but haven't spent the time to find a good reader. I experimented with it in Thunderbird last year, but it was too basic.

Now that I am on a Mac (through work, but it is a MacBook Pro - thanks Curtis!) I've searched out a great RSS reader - NetNewsWire! I compared it to NewsFire, but the latter didn't have as many features and forced me to switch windows to read the feed. So far I'm loving it!

It's companion for PC is FeedDemon, although I haven't used it yet. Check them out!

http://www.newsgator.com/individuals/default.aspx

chris :)

WireShark on OSX Snow Leopard

This is a thank you post to Michael Gracie for his post on getting WireShark up and running under OSX Snow Leopard. I was stuck trying to figure out how to fix the security error I was getting on startup. Thank you!

http://michaelgracie.com/2009/10/13/getting-wireshark-running-on-os-x-snow-leopard-10.6/

chris