Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:11:34 -0400 From: "Michael E. Mercer" <mmercer@nc.rr.com> To: Dag-Erling =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: permissions problem with installations from PORTS Message-ID: <1081991488.314.8.camel@fast.mmercer.com> In-Reply-To: <xzp65c29107.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <1081712536.258.7.camel@fast.mmercer.com> <xzpr7urahq1.fsf@dwp.des.no><xzp65c29107.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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Hello, I got a new machine that is blazingly fast. I also installed gnome-lite which in turn installed a majority of these ports that are having these problems. What I am getting at, is I never *saw* that warning. later Michael On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 08:50, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Joan Picanyol <pica@biaix.org> writes: > > * Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no> [20040413 19:58]: > > > Joan Picanyol <pica@biaix.org> writes: > > > > I can second this. It also happens with mozilla and friends (my umask is > > > > set to 077) > > > Pilot error. Your umask should be 022 or 002 when installing ports. > > > Otherwise, you get what you ask for. > > May I disagree? I expected the ports system to use install to properly > > set up permissions for all files. At the very least, it should be > > documented somewhere. > > You deliberately ignored the following warning: > > ===> Warning: your umask is 077 > If this is not desired, set it to an appropriate value > and install this port again by ``make reinstall'' > > DES
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