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Re: Install problems under Red Hat 9.0
On 11 Jun 2003, Jay Belanger wrote:
> "Andrew D. Hwang" <ahwang@mathcs.holycross.edu> writes:
>
> > A user reports that when he unpacks the CTAN tarball for version 0.8.10,
> > the file permissions are incorrect [...]
>
> I'm running RedHat 9 here, and I can duplicate the problem, but I have
> no idea what's causing it.
>
Hi Jay,
Thanks for the confirmation; was starting to think everything I know is
wrong... :P
> When I do "tar ztvf epix.tar.gz", I also get 0664, but when I unpack,
> I get 0644.
>
> [...]
> Also, why do you get the right permissions when you untar. Why do I
> get 0644 instead of 0664 when I untar?
>
No idea about the first. I'm guessing the second is due to the default
umask (probably set in /etc/profile). Is RedHat's default something
paran^H^H^H unusual, like 133 or 177? Just a wild, wild guess.
--Andy
Andrew D. Hwang ahwang at mathcs dot holycross dot edu
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