On 23:47 11 Dec 2002, Taso Hatzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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,
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