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- From: mcampbel@ocoee (Mike Campbell )
- Subject: Re: umask
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- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 06:18:23 GMT
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- udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk) writes:
- : tbuck@teal.csn.org (Timothy E. Buchanan) writes:
- : : I typed umask [077] to change the default file mask, testing this
- : : before adding it to the uumvlog script. Then I typed umask to check
- : : the setting and it returned 000, not 077. umask [022] did not
- : : change it back, only logging out and back in.
- : :
- : : Did I do something wrong?
- :
- : Yes, why did you put [] around the argument?? The [] is interpreted by
- : the shell, and what you've typed above always results to 0 as argument
- : for umask.
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- If it's what I suspect, it may be because he was told to. I remember seeing
- that 'umask [077]' command in, oh hell, what was it, the uusecure mwcbbs
- update download? I think that was it; for the more secure uucico and uucp.
- It says to do that in the docs, for the uumvlog crontab entry.
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