From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jun 30 7:43:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.wetworks.org (shell.wetworks.org [63.160.175.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 17BBD37B6B4 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 07:43:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abc@shell.wetworks.org) Received: (qmail 8595 invoked by uid 1000); 30 Jun 2000 14:43:45 -0000 Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 10:43:45 -0400 From: Alan Clegg To: Stephen Hovey Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Offensive figures (wa: Why?) Message-ID: <20000630104345.B8409@shell.wetworks.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from shovey@buffnet.net on Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 10:34:53AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [moved to -chat] An SMTP stream claimed that Stephen Hovey muttered: > Oh I have an admin that just WONT chown a file or dir 666 - he does 777 or > 444... I think it runs along the same lines as a co worker years ago, > when she lambasted me over the fact that I had purchased a real christmas > tree - something about my contributing to the tear down of the rain > forests I think.. Ah, the chmod 'problem' is easily workable: chmod a=rw filename So, there we go, a workaround. I guess the "right" thing to do would be to disable the numeric mode. B-) AlanC {having just sent his 5 yr old to daycare wearing "Daemon Horns"} http://alan.clegg.com/cgi-bin/USENIX?06210023.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message