Re: Problems w/ permissions.

[Earl Hood <earl@earlhood.com>]

On July 10, 2002 at 01:46, Peter Losher wrote:

> I have been moving MHonArc archives to another box (using 2.5.6) and I have
> had a devil of a time getting MHonArc to write the files with a umask of
> 644.  Currently it writes everything as with a umask of 022.  I have tried
> adding -umask 644 to the command line, and it seemingly ignores it when
> writing new files (and updating .mhonarcdb)

You have the meaning of umask reversed.  Try -umask 022 to have files
generated with permissions 644.

--ewh

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