permissions problem with installations from PORTS

Peter Radcliffe pir at pir.net
Wed Apr 14 07:00:48 PDT 2004


Dag-Erling Smrgrav <des at des.no> probably said:
> You deliberately ignored the following warning:
> 
> ===>  Warning: your umask is 077
>       If this is not desired, set it to an appropriate value
>       and install this port again by ``make reinstall''

... which is very easy to miss when you're using portupgrade or similar.

What I'd like, actually, is an optional setting to force the umask for
all port installations (not just for portupgrade) so I don't have to
remember to change my umask every time I install something.

P.

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pir



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