Re: Remember to set UMASK properly in your /etc/cron.* scripts (Ref: Bug#93123)

[Christian Marillat <marillat.christian@wanadoo.fr>]

>>>> "HMH" == Henrique M Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> writes:

HMH> On Fri, 06 Apr 2001, marillat.christian@wanadoo.fr wrote:
>> fcron create file with only rw permission and this doesn't work with these
>> package:
>> 
>> cricket
>> webalizer

HMH> Fix for #93123 being regression-tested as I write this. 

HMH> Anyway, IMHO these scripts are broken. Anything sensitive to UMASK should
HMH> set it properly, as there is NO reason to assume root's umask (or any user's
HMH> for that matter) is 022 or 002 IMHO.

This is not script fcrontab are:

58      23      * * *   /usr/bin/webalizer

and

*/5     *       * * *   /usr/share/cricket/collector >> /var/log/cricket/cricket.log 2>&1

Christian