Strange osascript behavior

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Strange osascript behavior

I have two Macs here, and on one of them, I've discovered that osascript appears to be entirely non-functional. If I run a script with osascript on the affected machine, nothing happens. No expected outcome, no output in the Terminal, no message written to the Console. The same script runs just fine in Script Editor, and runs just fine with osascript on the other Mac.

Anybody have any idea what could cause this, and how to solve it?

Edit: By the way, both Macs are running the latest version of Yosemite (10.10.4)

Posted on Jul 2, 2015 12:21 PM

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Answer 1

SGIII

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Jul 2, 2015 1:01 PM in response to thomas_r.

Since it runs on one Mac and not the other, you might want to double-check that the settings are the same in System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Accessibility.

SG

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thomas_r. Author

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Jul 2, 2015 1:19 PM in response to SGIII

Just made them both exactly the same, but no change at all.

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thomas_r. Author

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Jul 2, 2015 1:34 PM in response to thomas_r.

Figured it out... comparing the osascript binaries on each system, the one on the affected Mac was only 16,810 bytes, vs 38,944 on the unaffected Mac. So I copied the binary from the unaffected Mac to the affected one, used chown to change the owner back to root, and now all is working fine.

Not sure exactly how that happened, though! Very odd...

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