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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: umask
Keywords: nfs
Message-ID: <13259@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 17 Jul 90 21:22:33 GMT
References: <1114@larry.sal.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1114@larry.sal.wisc.edu> cathy@larry.sal.wisc.edu (Cathy Accettura) writes:
> I am using ultrix 3.1 and NFS on 3 Microvax II's.
> 
> I have my umask set up as 02.  
> If I create a file using touch the machine that has a file 
> system mounted over the network,  I get  644 as the permission.

Threre was a bug in one of the VAX nfs versions such that NFS was using the
default umask when the nfs deamons were started instead of or in addition
to the user umask.

The fix was to put a umask in the rc file just before the daemons were
spawned.  There may be a patch available that fixes this, check with the
support center.
-- 
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