[this bounced, i guess i'll send it to the list] The Doctor What writes: > Should umask be 002 or 022? > > /etc/profile (base-files) has 022. > /etc/zprofile (zsh) has 002. > > man-db obviously expects any user man directories to be group > writable. Why would man be running a login shell? -- There is no TRUTH. There is no REALITY. There is no CONSISTENCY. There are no ABSOLUTE STATEMENTS. I'm very probably wrong. -- BSD fortune(6)