On Dec 8, 2014, at 11:37 AM, Andrea Venturoli <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. > > There are some ports that insist on changing permissions on some directories. > An example is clamav, which will always change /var/db/clamav mask to 755. > > Since I always need to "chmod 775 /var/db/clamav" after an upgrade, I'm > asking: > _ where does this come from? I tried to look into Makefile, but didn't get to > it;
Is the umask setup in your shell 022 or 002? With the FreeBSD tendency to always allocate both a user and group together, having group-writable be a default option is reasonable, but most software tends to assume that only the owner should have write access and not group write. Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
