Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 21:56:09 -0400 From: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup and file permissions Message-ID: <19981020215609.A20479@netmonger.net> In-Reply-To: <199810210125.SAA07770@austin.polstra.com>; from John Polstra on Tue, Oct 20, 1998 at 06:25:18PM -0700 References: <19981020204619.F16673@netmonger.net> <199810210125.SAA07770@austin.polstra.com>
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On Tue, Oct 20, 1998 at 06:25:18PM -0700, John Polstra wrote: > No. It also affects which bits CVSup pays attention to when it is > determining whether the two files are the "same". I.e., CVSup looks > at the umask and does something with it. [...] > Please try it like that, and see if it works. If it doesn't, then > send me your cvsupfile as well as the output from "cvsup -v". Don't > worry, we'll get to the bottom of this. How right you are. Ouch. The problem is that I've been using sudo to run it, and while I've been setting _my_ umask to 2 for years, I see that it is not being inherited when I sudo. I feel like an idiot and I apologize for wasting your time. This particular machine has been around since before login.conf, so we never bothered to tweak it. -- Christopher Masto Director of Operations S NetMonger Communications chris@netmonger.net info@netmonger.net SSS http://www.netmonger.net \_/ You're either a friend or a foe, and you're an enemy now. - STEVE BALLMER, Executive Vice President, Sales & Support, Microsoft, to Pacific Bell CEO David Dorman after Pacific Bell chose Netscape's Web software over Microsoft's. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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