David Jansen wrote: > Am I missing something, or is this a bug in either yum or rpm (on Fedora > 8): > > Root's umask is set to 077, so files created by root are by default only > readable by root. Safest setting, so quite ok. > Now root runs an rpm or yum command to install or update files. Umask > setting is not used for the files extracted from the rpm, those get the > permissions as stored inside the package. But root's umask appears to be > in effect for the scripts that run from the rpm. > > Most notably: various files in /usr/share/mime become inaccessibel to > normal users after root manually installs updates. Similarly, after the > last update of tetex, files like /usr/share/texmf/ls-R were only > readable for root. > > Updates installed through the cron jobs, yum-updatesd, don't seem to > suffer from this problem. > I think where you are running into problems is the difference between root's environment when you log in, and the environment when cron jobs are run. Remember, when executing a cron job, none of the login scripts are run.
You will also find that some RPMs set the permissions of files regardless of the umask. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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