Re: Problems w/ permissions.

[Peter Losher <Peter_Losher@isc.org>]

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Earl Hood 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.

Thanks, sorry for the mixup...

-Peter
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