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From: hoyt@laura.alf.dec.com (Kurt Hoyt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: umask
Keywords: nfs
Message-ID: <1990Jul18.232545.12696@decatl.dec.com>
Date: 18 Jul 90 23:25:45 GMT
References: <13259@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1114@larry.sal.wisc.edu>
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Reply-To: hoyt@laura.alf.dec.com (Kurt Hoyt)
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In article <13259@cbmvax.commodore.com>, grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
> 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.
> 
> 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.

Use the workaround above. I didn't find an applicable patch in our set of
3.1 VAX patches.

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