BRESINKx86Monitoring ??

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BRESINKx86Monitoring ??

Just got a late 2012 27" iMac this morning. Normal startup, and set up was a breeze. But shile starting up now I now get the following message when the booting finishes:

"Insecure Startupitem disabled"

"Library/Startupitems/BRESINKx86Monitoring has not been started because it does not have the proper security setup"

What does this mean? It does not appear to have an effect on programs etc. I cannot move it as it is possibly a system item. Do I need to worry? How do it give it the "proper security setup"? And how do I get rid of this message? This is the only item in that folder.

I close the window and go on about my business.

Ben Furuta

late 2012 iMac 27", OSX 10.8.2, 16GB RAM

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Feb 11, 2013 7:26 PM

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WZZZ

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Feb 11, 2013 8:43 PM in response to Ben Furuta

That's Marcel Bresink's Hardware Monitor (or Temp Monitor.) You must have migrated it from another Mac. I think it just means that Marcel Bresink, all of whose programs are well regarded and trusted, has not, can not, or is unwilling on principle, to participate in Apple's code signing nonsense, either for Gatekeeper or for entry in to the App Store. I'm not running ML, but the default Gatekeeper option in Sys Prefs>Security must be set to the highest. You can adjust that setting, so the program will run. Maybe there's even a whitelist so you can allow poor Marcel Bresink to be an exception.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5290

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/58087/eclipse-4-2-on-mountain-lion-gate keeper-rejects-as-unidentified-developer

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Linc Davis

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Feb 11, 2013 9:36 PM in response to Ben Furuta

This issue has nothing to do with codesigning.

Mac OS X v10.6 or later: "Insecure Startup Items folder" message appears after logging in

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Ben Furuta Author

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Feb 12, 2013 6:53 AM in response to Ben Furuta

Thanks to LInc Davis and WZZZ: Problem solved! The easiest was simply to delete the item from the Startup Items folder. All is well

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WZZZ

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Feb 12, 2013 7:01 AM in response to Ben Furuta

That's too bad. If it was Hardware Monitor, that's an excellent program and you would have paid for it. But I doubt you would have trashed that item so quickly if you had paid for a HW Monitor license; I think you would have remembered that.

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Oct 29, 2013 10:13 AM in response to Ben Furuta

Interesting; when I try to drag the item to the trash ("BRESINKx86Monitoring") it tells me "The operation can't be completed because one or more required items can't be found. (Error code -43)"

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baltwo

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Oct 29, 2013 11:36 AM in response to Ben Furuta

Ben Furuta wrote:

What does this mean?

As the article indicates, permissions aren't correct. One thing the article doesn't describe is what happens if the problem persists after repairing permissions. For this specific startupitem, the permissions should be owner = system w/R&W and group = wheel w/'R only. Running this Terminal command on the BRESINKx86Monitoring folder inside /Library/StartupItems/ should fix the permissions, allowing its use:

sudo chown -R root:wheel /Library/StartupItems/BRESINKx86Monitoring

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Answer 7

Oct 31, 2013 12:48 PM in response to Ben Furuta

For me, deleting the iStat Pro widget (and using a "full removal" uninstaller) did the trick. Hadn't used the widget in ages anyway. Next restart, issue was gone.

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