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Re: rc scripts, umask and 2.4 kernels



Previously Ethan Benson wrote:
> recent 2.4 kernels seem to set a umask of 000 at boot which is
> inherited evidently by init and all its children who choose not to
> change it.   this results in several daemons creating mode 0666 .pid
> files among other things (see bug reports against ud and sshd among
> others).  

Kernel bug, will be fixed soon.

Wichert.

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