On 23:47 11 Dec 2002, Taso Hatzi <taso@esands.com> wrote: | (1) I dislike default world-read access to any files so I set umask | appropriately in /etc/bashrc. | | (2) Fiddle around with ppp config or anything else that rewrites /etc/hosts. Actually, no. It's not the rewriting. It's the bogus "unlink and make new file" which causes the umask to have effect. Such tools are busted and their author needs a slap about the head. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 cs@zip.com.au http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Mac OS X. Because making Unix user-friendly is easier than debugging Windows. - Mike Dawson, Macintosh Systems Administrator and Consultation. mdawson@mac.com http://herowars.onestop.net -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
