umask on my systems for root is 022 nate
On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Mark Wagnon wrote: mwagno >Hi all, mwagno > mwagno >I changed my umask for root to 077. I'm not certain if that was mwagno >wise. I'm also not certain if it's the cause of my headache with my mwagno >attempt to install StarOffice. mwagno > mwagno >I do a net installation and am able to install as root, but I can't mwagno >install as a normal user. It turns out that the permissions on the mwagno >SO directories are whacked. I can't get into most of them as a mwagno >normal user. mwagno > mwagno >Now I'm not sure if the problem is with the umask for root, or if mwagno >it's because I've left the /usr/local partition alone during my mwagno >flings with of flavors of Linux. The /usr/local and all subdirs mwagno >seemed to be owned by root.staff. I chown -R'd them to root.root, mwagno >and attempted to reinstall SO, but no luck. mwagno > mwagno >Anyway, all this ranting brings me to the point of this post: what's mwagno >the default umask for the root account? mwagno > mwagno >Thanks mwagno > mwagno >PS: If there's something else I'm doing wrong here, and you know mwagno >what it might be, could ya give me a hint? TIA mwagno >-- mwagno > -------------------------------------------- mwagno > ) Mark Wagnon ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) mwagno >( Chula Vista, CA ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( mwagno > -------------------------------------------- mwagno > mwagno > mwagno >-- mwagno >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null mwagno > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 1:52am up 190 days, 14:13, 1 user, load average: 1.02, 1.04, 1.06
