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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Debian apache woes > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Content-Disposition: inline > > > > 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.) > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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