[tech] Weird mount bug?
Grahame Bowland
grahame at azale.net
Fri Aug 30 20:28:50 WST 2002
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On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 07:44 pm, Paul Marinceu wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> > Could it be that you have a restrictive umask?
> >
> > Try umask 022 and see if it does what you want.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Grahame
>
> Yes that was the problem *grin*, thanks.
> Hmm, I wonder how that happened, I'm sure root used to have 022 and on my
> account I had 026, I remember setting that.
If you do "su" bits of your environment (including your umask) are transferred
over. If you want a cleaner environment with root's umask, do "su -".
- --
Grahame Bowland - <grahame at azale.net>
'All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors'
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