Craig,
I don't know if anyone else at MandrakeExpert is interested in this, so
perhaps we ought to switch from the mailing list to private emails???
At 02:40 PM 5/23/02, you wrote:
>File created with UMASK 022:
>
> 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29 May 23 13:08 test
>
>File created with UMASK 026:
>
> 4 -rw-r----- 1 root root 29 May 23 13:10 test2
>
>These are as one would expect the file perms to be when the respective
>UMASK values are set thusly.
I agree. These are the expected values.
>And the results are the same as your results. As stated in my previous
>post, my "/etc/sysconfig/msec" is set with the same values as your file.
>Now we are left with the same delemma: why do you get the creation of
>files with 0644 perms in "/var/log/security"?
To make matters more interesting, I have two Mandrake 8.2 workstations
(osage and walnut). Both were upgraded from 8.1 (as I don't have 8.2
CD's). On walnut, there are no msec complaints - the files are all
640. The 644->640 messages are only on osage.
To try to learn more, I'm running the following script as a cronjob:
rm -f /tmp/tst.umask.out
umask >> /tmp/tst.umask.out
date >> /tmp/tst.umask.out
ls -l /tmp/tst.umask.out
On both machines, I'm getting -rw-r--r-- (as expected). Would you care to
experiment and report?
David
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