Am I missing something, or is this a bug in either yum or rpm (on Fedora 8): Root's umask is set to 077, so files created by root are by default only readable by root. Safest setting, so quite ok. Now root runs an rpm or yum command to install or update files. Umask setting is not used for the files extracted from the rpm, those get the permissions as stored inside the package. But root's umask appears to be in effect for the scripts that run from the rpm. Most notably: various files in /usr/share/mime become inaccessibel to normal users after root manually installs updates. Similarly, after the last update of tetex, files like /usr/share/texmf/ls-R were only readable for root. Updates installed through the cron jobs, yum-updatesd, don't seem to suffer from this problem. If I explicitly execute 'umask 022; yum upgrade', there is no problem. So I think this is a bug in yum/rpm. Actually, I have been having problems with files like those in /usr/share/mime for a long time, probably since Fedora 8 came out, I just never correlated the problem to the way the updates were installed until now. On Fedora 9, I have not been able to reproduce the problem, even though the umask settings are the same. So, should I report this as a bug, or is it known, or perhaps already solved somehow? David Jansen -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
