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               I think my long October nightmare is finally over
                                        
My friend, Brian, concerned for my sanity, did some searching and sent me
this:

> From: Brian Yoder <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>
> To: Sean Conner <sean@conman.org>
> Subject: El Capitan: Rootless "feature"
> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 14:23:33 -0400
> 
> From: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/193368/what-is-the-rootless-
> feature-in-el-capitan-really [1]
> 
> > When you upgrade to El Capitan, it moves any "unauthorized" files from
> > restricted areas to /Library/SystemMigration/History/Migration-
> > (someUUID)/QuarantineRoot/.
> > 
> 

Really?

> [spc]marvin:~>ll /Library/SystemMigration/History/Migration-0C65E56F-4185-42B0-BBE8-5537E4FDEE38/QuarantineRoot/usr/bin/
> total 92472
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root    wheel     60212 Dec  6  2005 bbdiff
> -rwsr-xr-x  1 root    wheel     86416 Dec  6  2005 bbedit
> -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 root    wheel  21226488 Feb  4  2005 emacs (from old Mac)
> -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 root    wheel  21226488 Feb  4  2005 emacs-21.2.1
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root    wheel   1511312 Dec 21  2010 pkgbuild
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root    wheel   1605200 Dec 21  2010 productbuild
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root    wheel   1440848 Dec 21  2010 productsign
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 wlofie  staff   1195132 May 14  2010 synergyc
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 wlofie  staff   1751764 May 14  2010 synergys
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root    wheel      3561 Jul 12  2007 zegrep (from old Mac)
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root    wheel      3561 Jul 12  2007 zfgrep (from old Mac)
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root    wheel       103 Jul 12  2007 zless (from old Mac)
> [spc]marvin:~>
> 

Oh.

There are my missing executables [2]! In /usr/bin! And … owned by wlofie [3]?
How did—

Nevermind!

I found them!

I had to copy them out of that directory to $HOME/bin so they won't get blown
away again. Then I had to tweak “System Preferences → Security & Privacy →
Privacy” to allow Terminal and “sshd-keygen-wrapper” to have control over my
computer, then I can run synergys in the foreground, and it works! If I let
synergys run in the background (as it does by default) then El Presidente de
Por Vida [4] prevents it from doing anything useful.

But I got it to work!

So now I'm back to where I was on October 1^st [5]!

Woot!

[1] http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/193368/what-is-the-rootless-feature-in-el-capitan-really
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2015/10/14.1
[3] https://www.google.com/search?q=wlofie+site%3Aboston.conman.org
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X_El_Capitan
[5] gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2015/10/01

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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