perms on file linux redhat 9 filepro 5.0

[Bob Stockler]

On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 09:56:58AM -0400, Mark Luljak wrote:
| Simon--er, no...it was Rick Henderson--said:
| > open is creating a file with 600 owned by filepro.  I need this file to
| > be readable by everyone.
| > 
| > pfumask seems not to apply and using the system "chmod 644"<_filename
| > does not work either.
| 
| Because the version of bash you have executes system commands as the UID,
| not EUID.  You can't change perms on what you don't own.
| 
| Look into sudo, or replace bash with ksh like Brian likes to advise.  I
| would go for sudo, myself..

I tried replacing bash with the "real" KornShell on my Red Hat
Linux (7.2 or 7.3, I forget) and it broke a lot of the startup
scripts, so I stayed with bash and employed sudo.

Bob

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