StartupItems Folder Permissions

Question

Everytime I start MacOS 10.6.2 on either of my two Mac Pro's, I get the following error:
"Insecure Startup Items Folder Detected"
Items in the Startup Items folder (“/Library/StartupItems/”) have not been started because the folder does not have the proper security settings.
Although I have not sensed or found anything that was not working, the error is getting very annoying. Does anyone know, or know where I could find, the correct permissions for the StartupItems folder and it's contents?

Answer 1

Open a terminal window (Utilities->Terminal.app)
chown - changes ownership of a file/directory
chgrp - changes group of a file/directory
chmod - modifies permissions of a file/directory
sudo - enables you to take a super user role for the proceeding command
You can use any of the above commands with a "-h" flag to get help on using the command. The following sequence of commands will set the directory correctly:
cd /Library/
sudo chmod 755 StartupItems
sudo chown root StartupItems
sudo chgrp wheel StartupItems
You can verify by using: ls -la
In the results you should see:
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Feb 8 18:39 StartupItems
You may also find this intro to command line for Mac (GUI) users helpful:
http://db.tidbits.com/article/7003