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From: Julian Jenkins <kaveman@magna.com.au>
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On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> If you read the original poster's message again, you'll note that he
> was complaining about packages being installed with a fascist umask,
> and whether or not pkg_add should set the umask.  The ports hack won't
> help this case.

Those people need only use a script along the lines of:

#!/bin/sh
OLD_UMASK=`umask`
umask 022
pkg_add $*
umask $OLD_UMASK


I'm sure the forgetfull but knowledgeable among us could set this up. Or 
this could be given as part of a FAQ.

Kaveman
kaveman@magna.com.au