Re: forcing strange umasks

On Friday 13 August 2004 09:27, Jens-D. Neppe wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I would like to mention that I did not use a wrapper script
> (like descibed in the subversion book) to force the umask
> set to 002. I simply made an addition to the /etc/profile
> (using debian woody) like this
>
> alias svnserve="umask 002; svnserve"
>
> . Please let me know if this is complete nonsense. But ist
> really seems to work. Perhaps this way to define umasks
> could be added to the book?
>
> Tank you,
>
> Jens

Well, this works only if svnserve is called by a shell which interpreted the
/etc/profile first, which is not always the case. For example, according to
its man page, bash only interprets the /etc/profile when it's invoked as an
"interactive" shell or when the --login option is given. Interactive means
both stdin and stdout are connected to a terminal and "-c" was not given.

So I guess when you're using svn co svn+ssh://... your /etc/profile will not
get interpreted, and thus your umask won't be in effect.

C'ya,
        Marc

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Marc Haisenko
Systemspezialist
Webport IT-Services GmbH
mailto: haisenko@webport.de
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