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Re: rc scripts, umask and 2.4 kernels



is this what your looking for.

2.4.5-ac6
o       Force initial umask to be sane for broken       (Andrew Tridgell)
        init programs


On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 04:00:44AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 01:53:55PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> really?  both 2.4.4 and now 2.4.5 have this bug, im not sure if 2.4.3
> did or not.  
> 
> -- 
> Ethan Benson
> http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/



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