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  Exploring the Mac OS X Firewall
Subject:   StartupItems troubleshooting
Date:   2006-04-21 10:55:45
From:   peterhickman
Response to: StartupItems troubleshooting

You have created the wrong directory, you need to create /Library/StartupItems/Firewall/ It is this directory, /Library/StartupItems/, that OSX looks for when looking for items to run at startup.


Otherwise the rest looks fine.


As I understand it from other people the /Library/StartupItems/ directory may not exist by default. It was so long ago that I can no longer remember if I created it or it was there all along. Here are the permissions from my machine:


drwxr-xr-x root wheel /Library/StartupItems/
drwxr-xr-x root wheel /Library/StartupItems/Firewall/


As a note, never do anything in the /System directory.

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