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  5.           Thu, 8 Dec 94 19:05:18 GMT
  6. From: Nick Cropper <nickc@cs.st-andrews.ac.uk>
  7. Date: Thu, 8 Dec 94 19:06:10 GMT
  8. Message-Id: <6083.9412081906@aberlour.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk>
  9. To: rbhumbla@ames.UCSD.EDU, swift@bu.edu
  10. Subject: Re: MakeTeXPK - fix to permissions on created fonts
  11. Cc: tex-k@cs.umb.edu
  12.  
  13. > From: swift@acs.bu.edu (Matthew Swift)
  14. > To: rbhumbla@ames.UCSD.EDU (Ravinder Bhumbla)
  15. > 
  16. > > Adding the following as the *second*-to-last executable statement in
  17. > > MakeTeXPK fixes that.
  18. > 
  19. > >    cd $DESTDIR || exit 1
  20. > >    mv pktmp.$$ $PKNAME
  21. > >    chmod 644 $DESTDIR/$PKNAME # add this line below the above two.
  22. > 
  23. > The same should be done for $DESTDIR, which definitely needs to be
  24. > world-writable when it's created.
  25.  
  26. Would it not be better to put
  27. umask 0
  28. near the beginning of the file so that everyone has
  29. read/write(/search) access to files and directories
  30. (without complications of octal digits)?
  31.  
  32. Nick Cropper        nickc@dcs.st-and.ac.uk