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Re: Debian apache woes



On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 01:16:37PM -0500, Daniel Freedman wrote:
> 
> Erin,
> 
> Without thinking too hard about what's going on since I don't admin
> apache, I'm wondering if your problem could not just be that
> '/etc/.profile' should really be called '/etc/profile' .  I believe
it is called so
> the convention is that these types of files are dotfiles in users'
> directories (so they won't have to see them without ls -a) but do not
> have dot prefix in /etc/ directory where they apply systemwide.
> However, maybe you just mistyped below and it really is correctly
> named on your system.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Daniel
> 
> > Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 00:14:59 -0500
> > From: Eireann Lewy <elewy@slc.edu>
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Debian apache woes
> > Message-ID: <[🔎] 20001205001459.A14506@slc.edu>
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> > 
> > Okay. I am completely and utterly at a loss here.  I feel as if someone
> > has stolen my brain because I should not be this stupid.  I am, however,
> > a relative linux fledgling (I have been windows-free for about a year
> > and a half on the outside, and that's if I take out various pitfalls but
> > anyway...).
> > 
> > I'm having the following problems:
> > 1) The worst:  Despite having umask 022 in /etc/.profile and everyone's
> > personal .profiles, newly created directories are randomly getting bad
> > perms.  This is bad because most of my users don't know what the hell
> > permissions are, having none (except in very limited cases) in windows.
> > I just taught my two main cronies about chmod 755 and 644 (for regular
> > web files), but this shit can't keep happening.  (For FTPed files, I set
> > up a umask in the wu-ftpd ftpaccess file to set things at 644 which
> > seemed to work.)
> > 
> 
> 
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