what is org.postfix.master and how can I stop it? Do I want to?

That's after you repaired permissions? A lot of stuff is screwed up. Do you have any idea how that happened?

No, Lion will not fix this.

Every file in that directory has wrong permissions, an unnecessary ACL, or an unnecessary HFS attribute. I don't have any way of knowing what other damage was done to the /private directory, or to the rest of your system for that matter. All you've done is to repair permissions, which is usually pointless.

The Apple Support recommendation would be to back up your data in Time Machine, erase your startup volume, reinstall Mac OS X, restore your data using Setup Assistant, then run Software Update. It's hours of work, and I'm not even sure it will fix everything, but under the circumstances I wouldn't be comfortable suggesting anything else.

Most important, if you take computing seriously, you need to do whatever it takes to keep this from happening again. Whoever did this could have destroyed your data, installed spyware, or done whatever else he wanted -- or didn't want. Every Mac should have one and only own owner, who is also the only administrator. You can have as many other users as you want with their own account, but they should not be administrators, which means that they can't change anything except their own files, and they should not know the admin password. You yourself should not run as admin except when doing admin tasks. Keep all your data in a regular user account and switch to your admin account with Fast User Switching only when necessary.

That only scratches the surface of what it takes to have a secure setup, but it will protect you from the most casual sort of vandalism, which seems to be what you have here.

The sudo chown command worked perfectly. Now one of my two repetitive problems, every 9 sec, is solved.

I am running Lion and used sudo chown _postfix:mail /Library/Server/Mail/Data/mta/master.lock as my mail log was structured differently from digitigger's.

The other one reads as follows in console:

11/8/11 1:27:16.049 PM com.identityfinder.launchdaemon: 2011-11-08 13:27:16,049 INFO - Endpoint service started. Version: 5.0.0.2
11/8/11 1:27:26.109 PM com.identityfinder.launchdaemon: 2011-11-08 13:27:26,108 ERROR - serverUrl is empty.
11/8/11 1:27:27.109 PM com.apple.launchd: (com.identityfinder.launchdaemon) Throttling respawn: Will start in 9 seconds

I tried throwing the identify finder application in the trash, and also an identity-h and an identity-v unix executable files in the trash, restarted, but the console messages are the same.

Any ideas?

Thanks

I have no idea what "com.identityfinder.launchdaemon" is. It's not part of the Mac OS; it's something you installed, and your problem is not the same as the OP's. Please start a new thread to address it.

FWIIW, as far as I know, org.postfix.master is a plist file connecting to Carbon Copy Cloner.

No, it's a Mac OS file.

Hi Linc, correct (?), but I am sure it is used by CCC. My remark was not to contribute to solution of the problem, but more a side remark. This thread goes way above my head.😊

Linc,

This fixed my postfix problem, but a new message seems to have cropped up :

11/8/12 4:40:23.708 PM com.apple.launchd: (com.caleido.portmap) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

Any idea how to fix this one?

Thanks!

I think i have similar problems.

I have every 10 sec this

Oct 13 23:54:55 iMac27 kernel[0]: Sandbox: sandboxd(2164) deny mach-lookup com.apple.coresymbolicationd

Oct 13 23:54:55 iMac27.local sandboxd[2164] ([2131]): WebProcess(2131) deny mach-lookup ATS Query Port 216

Oct 13 23:55:03 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd[2165]): Exited with code: 254

Oct 13 23:55:03 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

Oct 13 23:55:13 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd[2166]): Exited with code: 254

Oct 13 23:55:13 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

Oct 13 23:55:23 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd[2167]): Exited with code: 254

Oct 13 23:55:23 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

Oct 13 23:55:33 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd[2168]): Exited with code: 254

Oct 13 23:55:33 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

Oct 13 23:55:43 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd[2169]): Exited with code: 254

Oct 13 23:55:43 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

Oct 13 23:55:53 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd[2170]): Exited with code: 254

Oct 13 23:55:53 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

Oct 13 23:56:03 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd[2171]): Exited with code: 254

Oct 13 23:56:03 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

Oct 13 23:56:13 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd[2172]): Exited with code: 254

Oct 13 23:56:13 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

Oct 13 23:56:23 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd[2173]): Exited with code: 254

Oct 13 23:56:23 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

Oct 13 23:56:24 iMac27.local Disk Utility[2174]: ApplePersistence=NO

Oct 13 23:56:24 iMac27.local com.apple.SecurityServer[17]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.burn' by client '/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app' [2174] for authorization created by '/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app' [2174] (B,0)

Oct 13 23:56:27 iMac27.local com.apple.SecurityServer[17]: Succeeded authorizing right 'com.apple.DiskManagement.internal.RepairPermissions' by client '/usr/sbin/diskmanagementd' [2175] for authorization created by '/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app' [2174] (10000B,0)

Oct 13 23:56:34 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd[2178]): Exited with code: 254

Oct 13 23:56:34 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

Oct 13 23:56:44 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd[2179]): Exited with code: 254

Oct 13 23:56:44 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

Oct 13 23:56:54 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd[2180]): Exited with code: 254

Oct 13 23:56:54 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

Oct 13 23:57:04 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd[2182]): Exited with code: 254

Oct 13 23:57:04 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

Oct 13 23:57:14 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd[2183]): Exited with code: 254

Oct 13 23:57:14 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

Oct 13 23:57:24 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd[2184]): Exited with code: 254

Oct 13 23:57:24 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

Oct 13 23:57:34 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd[2185]): Exited with code: 254

Oct 13 23:57:34 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

Oct 13 23:57:44 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd[2186]): Exited with code: 254

Oct 13 23:57:44 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

Oct 13 23:57:54 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd[2187]): Exited with code: 254

Oct 13 23:57:54 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

Oct 13 23:57:58 iMac27.local com.apple.SecurityServer[17]: Succeeded authorizing right 'com.apple.DiskManagement.internal.RepairPermissions' by client '/usr/sbin/diskmanagementd' [2175] for authorization created by '/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app' [2174] (10000B,0)

Oct 13 23:58:04 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd[2189]): Exited with code: 254

Oct 13 23:58:04 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

Oct 13 23:58:15 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd[2191]): Exited with code: 254

Oct 13 23:58:15 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

Oct 13 23:58:21 iMac27.local Console[2192]: ApplePersistence=NO

Oct 13 23:58:25 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd[2193]): Exited with code: 254

Oct 13 23:58:25 iMac27 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[132] (com.apple.ubd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

It happen today i think. I think i have a screwed up library folder with wrong permissions.

Hello - I'm also getting this problem running OS 10.9.5. Will your suggestion still work with Mavericks? Thank you.