flashupdater filling system.log with spew
Has anyone else noticed that flashupdater is filling their system.log with spew? This is happening on systems with and without flash installed. Sign, yet another blunder...
No. What do your messages say?
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com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.flashupdater[41220]): posix_spawn("/usr/libexec/flashupdater", ...): No such file or directory
com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.flashupdater[41220]): Exited with exit code: 1
com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.flashupdater): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
Looks like Flashback to me. Check out ~/Library/LaunchAgents, /System/Library/LaunchAgents, /System/Library/LaunchDaemons, /Library/LaunchAgents, and /Library/LaunchDaemons and see which one is spawning flashupdater. That will tell you how bad the infection is. After you have poked around a bit, then run Software Update.
That's the Flash updater included in Mac OS 10.7.4. It doesn't work on a case-sensitive boot volume, which is what you have.
Linc Davis wrote:
That's the Flash updater included in Mac OS 10.7.4. It doesn't work on a case-sensitive boot volume, which is what you have.
Correct. See this post: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3952378?tstart=0
and change your com.apple.flashupdater.plist file. That should take care of it.
Thank you both for your input. Yes, the file systems are case-sensitive and the OS is 10.6 on all the machines. I searched the bill of materials files and noticed - /usr/libexec/FlashUpdater then discovered the mistake in the plists. I adjusted the launchd plists and the problem is solved.
flashupdater filling system.log with spew