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Re: Incoming file permissions



Dale Miller writes ("Incoming file permissions"):
> I noticed that some but not all of the new packages
> that get uploaded to the Incoming directory don't have
> read permissions. Is there a reason for this? Are they
> uploaded that way? I like to install the latest and
> greatest as quick as possible. I know, that could be asking
> for trouble but that's me. I am particularily interested
> in the dmalloc package that just came out but couldn't
> get it for the past couple of days. If there is a reason
> why it is like that then no problem. I was jsut curious
> why only part of the packages were uploaded that way.

The packages that come via my system are uploaded using rcp rather
than anon-ftp, and so have more standard default permissions.

Ian.


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