Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: hacknews Subject: uucp umask fix Message-ID: <4186@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Aug-84 16:04:57 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.4186 Posted: Tue Aug 7 16:04:57 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Aug-84 16:04:57 EDT Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 9 A large user file transfer from UTCS failed last night because uucp and its minions don't bother resetting the umask, which screwed up the permissions of newly-created directories in /usr/spool/uucppublic. This is not uucp's only problem with permissions inherited from its invoker; someday I'll fix this properly. For the moment, uucp & co. have been fixed to initialize their umasks to 0. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry