should be drwxr-xr-x , they are lrwxr--xr-x.
As the years and new macs pass by, 'migration' (it would seem), has corrupted overall functionality. I have tended to update over DSL and have used migration for years... Generally migration is remarkable except for some time now it seems to have corrupted a little, somehow. "Repair Disk Permissions" regularly presents this message (along with the other thing supposed to be ignored-- SUID was it? or something like that).
The most annoying symptom is sort of an unpredictable 'Sleep' problem. MacPro (10.6.3) wakes up and fails to sleep, unless manually clicked back to sleep. It generally happens nightly. I have wondered if it could be power line surges, but other Macs here stay asleep. Or could it be sourced through DSL, a digital vaccine or what?
I'm trying to rebuild a separate disk manually, but it is so hard to import mail and restore it as it should be. Even Safari bookmarks importing runs into greyed-out files or they are titled in giberish. I try many times to unlock files, think that it should be unlocked, later to find new locks that can't seem to open.
If this keeps up, it may be time to "get a realistic life", not bother with powerful computers any more.
14th year of Apple products, Mac OS X (10.5.6)