[sclug] Permission errors with Dovecot

[Tom Chance]

On Friday 12 Aug 2005 01:42, iso wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 10:58:39PM +0100, Tom Chance wrote:
> > Ahoy,
>
> Arrr

Yarr!

> > 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

Aha, now that was a silly mistake :) Thanks for the help.

Regards,
Tom

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