[sclug] Permission errors with Dovecot

[iso]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 10:58:39PM +0100, Tom Chance wrote:
> Ahoy,

Arrr

> I've started getting weird errors on my mail server, I think since I changed 
> the umask for mail files and directories to 0644 (I wanted universal read 

> The permissions on that file, for some reason, are:
> -----w----  1 tom users 58992 Aug 11 

> Does anyone have any thoughts on what's going on, and how I can rectify the 
> situation? I've tried commenting out the umask setting to revert to the 
> default to no avail.

umask is a strange one, it's the permissions you dont want by default
(excluding executable which is strange), so to get a "chmod 644" you'd 
want a umask of 0033

iso at bender:~> umask
0077
iso at bender:~> touch o
iso at bender:~> ls -l o
-rw-------    1 iso      users           0 2005-08-12 01:39 o
iso at bender:~> rm o
iso at bender:~> umask 0033
iso at bender:~> touch o
iso at bender:~> ls -l o
-rw-r--r--    1 iso      users           0 2005-08-12 01:41 o

As for commenting out the "umask" command, that might not be enough
depending on where it's been set, better to replace with the correct
umask.