Strange message

I looked in all the places you mentioned and didn't see anything so unusual. I did however notice looking back at the console log that the first message in the list is often "insert ! !" or "nsert !" or " (C) 2004_2008 HUAWEI Technologies Co. , Ltd. All rights reserved. " I'm beginning to think it's coming from a T-Mobile hotspot device I returned. I bet I didn't remove all the software bits and pieces. I'll look and see what I can find.

Thanks for the tip.

OK, in my user library Launch Agents I have Apple CS config.me . In the system library Launch Agents there are plist files from edu.mit.Kerberos.CCache server, and KerberosAgent and openbsd.ssh-agent org.x.startx. little snitch, adobe, wacom, macosforge X , USB snapper. In Launch Daemons,

at.obdev.littlesnitchd.plist: com.apple.third_party_32b_kext_logger.plist com.barebones.textwrangler.plist com.bresink.system.securityagent3.plist, de.jinx.SmartSleepDaemon.plist, Under System/Library/StartupItems there isn't anything in the folder. I can see if invisible files are there and they aren't.

In System/Library/Launch Daemons I have: at.obdev.littlesnitchd.plist com.apple.third_party_32b_kext_logger.plist, com.barebones.textwrangler.plist, com.bresink.system.securityagent3.plist, de.jinx.SmartSleepDaemon.plist

What are you looking for? I sure don't understand how plist files can be causing this strange string to generate over and over. I mean, "waiting the veneer insert" repeating 500 times and then fifteen minutes later doing the same thing again just seems a waste of resources.

Yes I do use easyfind since spotlight isn't very useful. It's a good tip.

I guess that because I see the Huawei copyright piece at the start of the repeating string every third time or so and because the original "hotspot" had some very poor firmware which allowed the new owner to change the hotspot's name and password once and then locked them out for ever... really, the help desk response was to advise me to return the unit and continue doing so until I got a "good one", well that just didn't inspire confidence in Huawei. So I want to find my solution at their door but they aren't represented so far as I can recognize in the .plist files or in the launch agents.

ls -l ~/Library/LaunchAgents: Mar 31 2010 com.apple.CSConfigDotMacCert-#####@me.com-SharedServices.Agent.plist

ls -l /Library/LaunchAgents

total 24

-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 460 Aug 26 14:55 at.obdev.LittleSnitchNetworkMonitor.plist

-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 437 Aug 26 14:55 at.obdev.LittleSnitchUIAgent.plist

-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 591 Apr 8 2010 com.adobe.CS4ServiceManager.plist

ls -l /Library/LauncDaemons

ls -l /Library/LauncDaemons

ls: /Library/LauncDaemons: No such file or directory

ls -l /Library/StartupItems

total 0

drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 238 Nov 10 17:23 HWPortDetect_driver

drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 204 Nov 10 17:23 HW_CreateNetwork

hardly adament, merely tardy.